New directions in quantitative comparative sociology / / edited by Wil Arts and Loek Halman.

• Superior document: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; 72
• TeilnehmendeR: Arts, Wilhelmus Antonius, 1946-; Halman, Loek,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Koln : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; 72.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900447336X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Wil Arts and 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. Contributors are Toril Aalberg, Wil Arts, Carole B. Burgoyne, Loek Halman, Piet Hermkens, Guillermina Jasso, Mebs Kanji, James R. Kluegel, Ola Listhaug, David S. Mason, Petr Matěju, Neil Nevitte, Thorleif Pettersson, David A. Routh, Svetlana Sidorenko-Stephenson, Johan Verweij, Bernd Wegener, and Peter Van Wijck.