Leading anthropologists and political scientists are brought together in this volume to debate the problem of comparison, taking up a variety of topics from nationalist violence and labor strikes to ritual forms and religious practices. The contributors criticize conventional forms of comparative method, and introduce new comparative strategies, ranging from abstract model building to ethnographically based methods. They represent a wide variety of theoretical positions, from rational choice theory to interpretivism, and the issues are clarified in the cut and thrust of debate.
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This will be an excellent case book for courses on comparison across the social sciences. In it, leading anthropologists and political scientists debate the problem of comparison, taking up a variety of topics from nationalist violence and labour strikes to ritual and religious practices. They criticise conventional forms of comparative method, introducing new comparative strategies, ranging from abstract model building to ethnographically based methods. Representing a wide variety of theoretical positions, from rational choice theory to interpretivism, they clarify issues in the cut and thrust of debate.
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The social sciences today are torn apart by a tension between two desires: to richly describe the world, showing its complexity and variability, and to robustly model the world, showing its relationships and regularities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Boa Ventura, World War, Latin America, Soviet Union, David Laitin, Feast of Sacrifice, Fredrik Barth, Greg Urban, Margaret Levi, New Guinea, Barbara Geddes, Miriam Golden, British Leyland, North Bali, Labor Party, Allen Johnson, Terre Lliure, Van Riper, Costa Rica, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, National Front, New Zealand, President Kravchuk, Second Republic New!
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The social sciences today are torn apart by a tension between two desires: to richly describe the world, showing its complexity and variability, and to robustly model the world, showing its relationships and regularities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ritual wailing, nationalist violence, democratic period, career civil service, proletarian consciousness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Boa Ventura, World War, Latin America, Soviet Union, David Laitin, Feast of Sacrifice, Fredrik Barth, Greg Urban, Margaret Levi, New Guinea, Barbara Geddes, Miriam Golden, British Leyland, North Bali, Labor Party, Allen Johnson, Terre Lliure, Van Riper, Costa Rica, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, National Front, New Zealand, President Kravchuk, Second Republic New!
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- Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research by Gary King on page 2, page 19, and Back Matter
- Comparative Anthropology by Ladislav Holy on page 2, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by Margaret Levi on page 172, and Back Matter
- Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives by Dankwart A. Rustow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by James E. Alt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Roger D. Petersen on 4 pages
- Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (Studies in Rationality and Social Change) by Roger D. Petersen on 4 pages
- Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework by John Gerring on 4 pages
- The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis. by John L. Campbell in Front Matter, and page 49
- Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (Conversations in Medicine and Society) by Prof. Rick Mayes Ph.D. on page 13, and Back Matter
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