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Editorial COMPARATIVE research requires that workers in different countries study the same problems in the same way. If sociology is to accumulate knowledge that is free from cultural ethnocentricity much replication of research studies is essential. The present issue takes one universal feature of all societies - the family - and gives encouraging evidence that comparative studies have much to contribute both to family sociology and to the parent discipline. More precise studies will be possible in future years, as international exchanges of researchers and students are developed. Difficulties arise when interview schedules are translated into a new language and applied in a different culture: the conduct of research by the same person in several countries is one way to overcome these problems. Until a greater consensus on theories, instruments and problems exists within the profession of social anthropology - sociology, this will probably be the most effective way to conduct comparative research. Yet communication through a journal of the activities of social researchers in many parts of the world has an important part to play in the creation of climates of academic opinion favourable to cross-cultural studies. We offer this special number as a contribu- tion to co-operative cross-cultural research and it is our hope that in later issues other suitable problems may be similarly treated: socialisation, the division of labour, stratification systems, cohesion or integration or participation in different political or religious systems are examples that come to mind. As general editor, our thanks are given to Dr. John Mogey who has taken respon- sibility for this number. K. ISHWARAN EDITOR
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1962
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