New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology

This book is a collection of notable papers from the first six volumes of the journal "Comparative Sociology." Its content represents leading-edge and contemporarily astute analyses in the burgeoning science of comparative sociology, especially relevant to a globalizing world in transition. Given that not everyone is acquainted with comparative sociology, this book offers an opportunity to enlighten readers unfamiliar with the discipline about the importance of comparative sociology to the new world order. Taken together, the articles illuminate various aspects of comparative sociologya "theoretical, methodological, substantive. Some compare social entities in subjective, case-study fashion, while others report on rigorous social research. All contribute in one form or another to describing the many and varied facets of the exciting a oenewa science of comparative sociology. The content of this volume has previously been published in "Comparative Sociology" volumes 1 a " 6.3.

Introduction, Masamichi Sasaki
I. METHODS IN COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY Strategies in Comparative Sociology, Mattei Dogan Methods for Assessing and Calibrating Response Scales across Countries and Languages, Tom W. Smith, Peter Ph. Mohler, Janet Harkness, and Noriko Onodera
II. RADICAL SOCIAL CHANGE The Transition to Capitalism in China and Russia, Erich Weede Social Structure and Personality during the Process of Radical Social Change: A Study of Ukraine in Transition, Melvin
L. Kohn, Valeriy Khmelko, Vladimir
I. Paniotto, and Ho-fung Hung
III. VALUES, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY A Theory of Cultural Value Orientations: Explication and Applications, Shalom H. Schwartz Islamic Culture and Democracy: Testing the 'Clash of Civilizations' Thesis, Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart The Cultural-Economic Syndrome: Impediments to Democracy in the Middle East, Brigitte Weiffen
IV. INSTITUTIONS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Running Uphill: Political Opportunity in Non-Democracies, Maryjane Osa and Cristina Corduneanu-Huci Does a Strong Institution of Religion Require a Strong Family Institution?, Kristen R. Heimdal and Sharon K. Houseknecht
V. SOCIAL PROCESSES Globalization and Income Inequality in the Developing World, Margit Bussmann, Indra de Soysa, and John R. Oneal English as an International Language in Non-Native Settings in an Era of Globalization, Masamichi Sasaki, Tatsuzo Suzuki and Masato Yoneda A New Test of Convergence Theory, Robert M. Marsh Notes on Contributors Index