New directions in quantitative comparative sociology / / 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 a...

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Superior document:International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; 72
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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.
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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.