New Directions in Quantitative Comparative SociologyWilhelmus Antonius Arts, Loek Halman The comparative method is at the core of sociological inquiry and gained new importance, emphasis and practitioners particularly after the second world war as a consequence of a large variety of international and global scale developments. The contributions to this book regard nations or countries as contextual units of analysis and treat them as variables. Theoretical explanations are presented of how social phenomena are systematically related to characteristics of the nation states and these explanations are tested empirically using the qualitative tools of mainstream sociology. The chapters in this book can be useful to a broad audience and a range of social scientists who are interested in the understanding of contemporary social phenomena that are no longer limited to national borders but that are transnational or of a global order. |
Contents
Articles | 1 |
WIL ARTS PIET HERMKENS and PETER VAN WIJCK Modernisation Theory | 61 |
CAROLE B BURGOYNE DAVID A ROUTH and SVETLANA SIDORENKOSTE | 79 |
GUILLERMINA JASSO and BERND WEGENER Gender and Country Differences | 94 |
OLA LISTHAUG and TORIL AALBERG Comparative Public Opinion on Distrib | 117 |
LOEK HALMAN THORLEIF PETTERSSON and JOHAN VERWEIJ The Religious | 141 |
NEIL NEVITTE and MEBS KANJI Orientations Towards Authority and Congru | 161 |
List of Contributors | 191 |
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New Directions in Quantitative Comparative Sociology Wilhelmus Antonius Arts,Loek Halman No preview available - 1999 |
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actual earnings actual reward analysis Attitudes Toward Authority attributions authority orientations beliefs Bernd Wegener Britain Bulgaria changes coefficients communist comparative sociology Czech Republic Czechoslovakia Democracies democratic differences differential dimensions domain earnings equations East Eastern Europe Eckstein economic justice effect egalitarian empirical Estonia factors gamma gender gap government intervention Halman Hungary Hungary and Poland hypothesis impact of religion important indicators individual Inglehart ISBN 90 ISJP ISSP Jasso job income justice evaluation Kluegel Left left-right left-right political left-voting left-wing political life-success Matějů measure mobility modernisation theory Netherlands non-electoral orientations toward authority perceived perceptions Poland political participation political parties post-communist countries postmaterialism predicted preferred inequality proportion underrewarded protest question religious respondents returns to schooling Russia secularization shifts significant Slovenia statism structure support for government survey Table Tilburg University transition values variables Wegener West Germany Western women worker workplace World Values Surveys
References to this book
Strafen oder Erziehen?: eine komparative Längsschnittstudie zu den ... Beate Ehret Limited preview - 2007 |