Publisher's Synopsis
The book addresses the methodological problems raised by international comparative social science research.;As research is increasingly conducted on a transnational basis, more scholars are faced with data rendered incompatible by differing cultural and disciplinary norms. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors from 10 countries on three continents addresses different aspects of the practice, past experience and future of comparative research.;This volume has been specially prepared for the 1990 World Congress of Sociology.