This collection of readings serves as a broad introduction to comparative research in the social sciences — stressing mainly work in sociology, but also representing anthropology, political science, and other disciplines. The articles were chosen for readability, but also represent the best work in the field. Presents comparative research on topics ranging from stratification, women and gender issues, politics, to attitudes and values. Represents many different styles of work — from qualitative to statistical, from two-nation comparisons to multi-country analyses, from the analytic to the advocacy mode, from conservative to radical.

Comparing Nations and Cultures: Readings in a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Inkeles, Alex

Sasaki, Masamichi

Social Sciences

Pearson

Contents: the subject matter of sociology; the sociological perspective; models of society in sociological analysis; conceptions of man in sociological analysis; basic elements of social life; fundamental social processes; models of inquiry in sociology; sociology as a profession; selected references; index

What Is Sociology? an Introduction to the Discipline and Profession

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Inkeles, Alex, Social Change In Soviet Russia

Social Change in Soviet Russia.

History

Russia

Harvard University Press

Exploring Individual Modernity

With contributions by David H. Smith, Karen A. Miller, Amar K. Singh, Vern L. Bengston, and James J. Dowd.

Columbia University Press

INKELES, A.: EXPLORING INDIVIDUAL MODERNITY. , 1983, xiii 376 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Sociology

Columbia Univ. Pr.

One World Emerging? Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies: Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies

Routledge

In One World Emerging? Alex Inkeles clarifies the meaning of convergence in the social organization of modern societies, shows how it can be measured, and illustrates in detail the manner and degree of convergence across national boundaries. Inkeles assesses the extent to which convergence in institutional patterns is reflected in the emergence of more common attitudes, values, and daily behaviors in different national populations as individuals and communities engage with and respond to the standardizing pressures of national development and global modernization. One popular image of the probable condition of humanity in the twenty-first century anticipates a new Armageddon with all the great civilizations at war with each other. This model neglects a less dramatic but deeper-seated process of worldwide change in which national economic and political systems become more alike and populations worldwide come to adopt similar lifestyles and develop similar attitudes and values for daily living. Alex Inkeles penetrating analysis focuses on this process of convergence.

Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries

This is a valuable and fascinating book valuable because of the findings it presents, fascinating because of the way it presents them. The subject of Becoming Modern is the modernization process in six developing nations (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Bangladesh). The method is to survey about a thousand men, aged 20-30, in each of these lands. The goal is to demonstrate that a modern man, identifiable by his attitudes toward different aspects of life, does indeed exist, and to find out what factors encourage the transformation from traditional to modern. -The New Leader

Becoming modern: Individual change in six developing countries

Politics & Government

Heinemann Educational

This is a valuable and fascinating book valuable because of the findings it presents, fascinating because of the way it presents them. The subject of Becoming Modern is the modernization process in six developing nations (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and Bangladesh). The method is to survey about a thousand men, aged 20-30, in each of these lands. The goal is to demonstrate that a modern man, identifiable by his attitudes toward different aspects of life, does indeed exist, and to find out what factors encourage the transformation from traditional to modern. -The New Leader

Business & Money

Smith, David Horton

Economics

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How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes (Russian Research Center Studies, 24)

Kluckhohn, Clyde

Bauer, Raymond a

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Comparing Nations and Cultures: Readings in a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

What Is Sociology? an Introduction to the Discipline and Profession

Social Change in Soviet Russia.

Exploring Individual Modernity

Exploring Individual Modernity

One World Emerging? Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies: Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies

One World Emerging? Convergence And Divergence In Industrial Societies: Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies

Becoming modern: Individual change in six developing countries

Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries

How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes (Russian Research Center Studies, 24)