Comparative Methods In Sociology Essays On Trends And Applications - UCAL POD

The Essays In This Volume Are Intended To Help Social Scientists Do Better Comparative Research And Thereby To Improve Our Possibilities For Creating More Satisfactory Explanations Or Theories. These Broad Aims Are Advanced Throughout The Book In Serval Ways: (1) By An Identification And Assessment Of The Methodological Strategies Of Exceptionally Important Comparativists, Past And Present; (2) By An Explication And Refinement Of Logics Of Procedure That Are Central To Many Types Of Comparative Research; (3) By A Presentation Of Research Models That Link Or Bridge Heretofore Separate Lines Of Comparative Inquiry; And (4) By The Definition Of Methodological Criteria By Which Theories And Conceptual Frameworks Can Be More Fruitfully Related To And Qualified By Comparative Studies. Specific Problems Such As Comparability, Causal Inference, Conceptualization, Measurement, And Sampling Are Addressed In Various Sections Of Particular Essays.