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COMPARISON AS RESEARCH METHOD IN SOCIOLOGY AND APPROACH OF TEACHING EUROPEAN SOCIETIES

(SUMMER SESSION  I)

6-20 September, 2009

Kyiv,   Ukraine

Editors and compilers:

Prof. Olga Kutsenko, Project Academic Co-Director

Dr. Andrii Gorbachyk, Project Executive Director

Dr. Svitlana Babenko, Project Co-ordinator

Aleksandra Nen'ko, Secretary of Project


CONTENTS

Introduction

COMPARISON IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Piotr Sztompka

Conceptual Frameworks In Comparative Inquiry: Divergent Or Convergent?

International Sociology 1988; 3; 207

 

Erwin K. Scheuch

Theoretical Implications Of Comparative Survey Research: Why The Wheel Of Cross-Cultural Methodology Keeps On Being Reinvented.

International Sociology 1989; 4; 147

 

Max Haller

The Challenge For Comparative Sociology In The Transformation Of Europe.

International Sociology 1990; 5; 183

 

Bernd Hamm

Comparative Versus Evolutionary Approaches To European Society.

International Sociology 1991; 6; 111

 

Melinda Mills, Gerhard G. van de Bunt, Jeanne de Bruijn

Persistent Problems and Promising Solutions

 

Charles C. Ragin

How to Lure Analytic Social Science Out of the Doldrums. Some Lessons from Comparative Research

 

Jürgen Kocka

Multiple Modernities and Negotiated Universals

 

Jürgen Kocka

Civil Society in Historical Perspective

 

Jürgen Kocka

Comparison And Beyond

 

Thiem Claudia Hanson

Thinking through education: the geographies of contemporary educational restructuring

 

Бабенко С.

Методология преподавания социологии: на пути к изменению парадигмы

 

Сорока Ю.

Активизация повседневного знания аудитории в процессе преподавания социологии: теоретико-методологические основы и методические приемы

 

 

LECTURE PART

 

1. SOCIAL HISTORY AND EUROPEAN MODERNITY IN COMPARISON
(Lecture by Prof. Pal Tamas)

 

Oliver Razum, Thomas Altenhoner, Jurgen Breckenkamp, Sven Voigtlander

Social Epidemiology after the German Reunification: East VS. West or Poor vs. Rich?

 

Michael Schudson

Good Citizens and Bad History:Today's Political Ideals in Historical Perspective

 

Tomas Frejka . Charles F. Westoff

Religion, Religiousness and Fertility in the US and in Europe. From the East and the West

 

Corinna Mieth

World Poverty as a Problem of Justice? A Critical Comparison of Three Approaches

 

Scott Grills & Robert Prus

The Myth of the Independent Variable: Reconceptualizing Class, Gender, Race, and Age as Subcultural Processes

 

 

2. CROSS-NATIONAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON AS A METHOD FOR THEORY TESTING AND EMPIRICAL VALIDATION
(Lectures by Prof. Andrii Gorbachyk)

 

Malvin A. Kohn

Cross-National Reasearch as an Analytic Stategy

 

Henry Teune

Measurement in Comparative Research

 

C. Ragin, D. Zaret

Theory and Method in Comparative Research: Two Strategies

 

Mattei Dogan

Strategies in Comparative Sociology.

Comparative Sociology, Volume 1, issue 1

 

Edmond A. Lisle

Validation in the Social Sciences by International Comparison

 

Karl W. Deutsch

The Systems Theory Approach as a Basis for Comparative Research

 

King, Keohane,Verba

Designing Social Inquiry

 

 

3. EUROPEAN VISIONS AND DIVISIONS: CHALLENGES FOR STUDY AND TEACHING
(Lecture by Prof. Claire Wallace)

 

Claire Wallace

Opening and Closing borders: Migration and Mobility in Eastern-Central Europe

 

C. Wallace, F. Pichler

Changing Patterns of Civic Participation in Europe and America 1995-2005. Is Eastern Europe Different?

 

Claire Wallace

The Consequences for Health of System Disintegration and Social Disintegration in the Commonwealth of Independent Countries

 

4. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: THEORIES, CONCEPTS, MEASUREMENT, MODELS

(Lectures by Prof. Harry Ganzeboom)  

 

Ganzeboom, Harry B.G.; Treiman, Donald J.; Ultee, Wout C. (1991)

Comparative Intergenerational Mobility Research - Three Generations and Beyond.

Annual Review of Sociology (17), pp. 277-302.

 

Hout, Michael, and Thomas A. DiPrete (2006).

RC28's Contribution to Knowledge: An Assessment and an Agenda for the Future.

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 1-20.

 

Gerber, Theodore P.  and Michael Hout

Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia’s Market Transition.

American Sociological Review. Vol. 65, no. 5. October 2004, pp. 677-703.

 

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Janicka, Krystyna

Structural Determinants of Trust in Public Institutions: Cross-National Differentiation.

International Journal of Sociology (39,1), 2009: 29-39.

 

5. COMPARATIVE FIELD STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES
(Lecture by Prof. Nikolai Genov)

 

Nikolai Genov

Labour For Sale In The Global Market.

Arbeitspapiere des Osteuropa-Instituts der Freien Universitat Berlin Abteilung Soziologie Herausgegeben von Nikolai Genov, 2009/3

 

Nikolay Genov

Preface In: Interethnic Integration in Five European Societies, 2008

 

Nikolay Genov

Conclusions In: Interethnic Integration in Five European Societies, 2008

 

 

6. EUROPEAN HISTORY AS COMPARATIVE HISTORY
(Lectures by Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt)

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Comparative Method - a Contested Method

 

Peter Baldwin

Comparing and Generalizing: Why All History, Yet No History is Sociology

 

Alexander Nuetzenadel

A Green International? Food Markets and Transnational Politics, c. 1850-1914

 

Frank Trentmann

The Modern Genealogy of the Consumer Meanings, Identities and Political Synapses

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