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.

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.

Table of Contents

WIL ARTS and LOEK HALMAN, New Directions in Quantitative Comparative Sociology: An Introduction -- PETR MATĚJU,Who Votes Left after the Fall of Communism? The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective -- JAMES R. KLUEGEL and DAVID S. MASON, Political Involvement in Transition: Who Participated in Central and Eastern Europe? -- WIL ARTS, PIET HERMKENS and PETER VAN WIJCK, Modernisation Theory, Income Evaluation, and the Transition in Eastern Europe -- CAROLE B. BURGOYNE, DAVID A. ROUTH and SVETLANA SIDORENKO-STEPHENSON, Perceptions, Attributions and Policy in the Economic Domain: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis -- GUILLERMINA JASSO and BERND WEGENER, Gender and Country Differences in the Sense of Justice: Justice Evaluation, Gender Earnings Gap, and Earnings Functions in Thirteen Countries -- OLA LISTHAUG and TORIL AALBERG, Comparative Public Opinion on Distributive Justice: A Study of Equality Ideals and Attitudes toward Current Policies -- LOEK HALMAN, THORLEIF PETTERSSON and JOHAN VERWEIJ, The Religious Factor in Contemporary Society: The Differential Impact of Religion on the Private and Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective -- NEIL NEVITTE and MEBS KANJI, Orientations Towards Authority and Congruency Theory: The Cross-national, Cross-time Evidence -- List of Contributors -- Author index -- Subject index.