Comparative Studies of Social Structure
Comparative Studies of Social Structure

Author: Wolfgang Teckenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1315494272

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A collection of essays with the purpose of stimulate interest and provoke discussion and criticism, and so contributing to our understanding of the three very different societies of France, the USA and Germany. Each essay stands on its own, and it is the authors’ intention to explain some of the differences between Germany and the United States in the first article. The second essay suggests that career mobility in France has more in common with social mobility in the United States than in Germany. The third essay, while not an explicitly comparative analysis, was included because it clearly shows the close links between the educational and occupational systems in Germany, a source of major differences with the United States, at least until the 1980s. The last section contains analyses of income attainment. Drawing on studies in the United States conducted by Erik O. Wright, the fourth essay compares the effects of education and position on income attainment. Since these can be construed as class effects, we were also curious about other types of potential positional and nonvertical income differences in a comparison of France, the United States, and the Federal Republic of Germany (the fifth essay). The concluding summary is very brief, giving only preliminary answers to the more detailed questions raised in the comparative empirical research projects.

International Comparative Research
International Comparative Research

Author: Manfred Niessen

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1483158896

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International Comparative Research: Social Structures and Public Institutions in Eastern and Western Europe is a seven-chapter book prepared for the Second International Seminar on Cross-National Comparative Research. Chapters 1 and 2 describe developments in comparative research on social structure and comparisons of social mobility in different socio-economic systems. Subsequent chapters explore structural changes and mobility in a capitalist and a socialist society; comparative research on public institutions; a comparative perspective on social problems and the law; and comparison of public institutions, their organization, and procedures. The last chapter considers high level public officials in Eastern and Western European countries.

Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

Author: Doug McAdam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-01-26

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780521485166

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Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements.

Changing Structures of Inequality
Changing Structures of Inequality

Author: Yannick Lemel

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780773526235

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The international sociological community has engaged in a controversial discussion on social inequality. This title offers a deed analysis of country-specific research traditions in the fields of class analysis and social stratification, revealing important conceptual differences that have consequences for the diagnoses.

Comparative Sociology
Comparative Sociology

Author: Robert Mortimer Marsh

Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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Theoretics of comparative sociology - covers the evolution of social research and cross cultural analysis methodology, and includes literature surveys of social structure studies, an annotated bibliography pp. 375 to 488, and a chronological bibliography of comparative studies from 1835 to 1950 pp. 488 to 496.

Discourse and the Construction of Society
Discourse and the Construction of Society

Author: Bruce Lincoln

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0199372365

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In this new edition of his seminal theoretical work on myth, ritual, and classification, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which these narratives and practices hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. The second edition includes three new chapters, new images, and an updated bibliography.

Comparative Methods in Sociology
Comparative Methods in Sociology

Author: Ivan Vallier

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-04-29

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0520306937

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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 new 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. --From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.