Download full text
(114.8Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-50522
Exports for your reference manager
The dialectic of the general and particular in social science research and teaching
[review]
Reviewed workEmber, Carol R.; Ember, Melvin: Cross-cultural research methods. Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press 2001. 0-7425-0427-1
Abstract "Cross-Cultural Research Methods" pretends to be a primer on the "how to" of conducting cross-cultural research, but focuses only on quantitative methods that use secondary data in the service of generating knowledge. The book is caught twice in the dialectic of the general and the specific, by putt... view more
"Cross-Cultural Research Methods" pretends to be a primer on the "how to" of conducting cross-cultural research, but focuses only on quantitative methods that use secondary data in the service of generating knowledge. The book is caught twice in the dialectic of the general and the specific, by putting all its eggs into the former basket and failing to recognize the role of the latter both in research itself and in the teaching of research methods to its readers. Because I know that the students in my graduate research methods course would fail to appreciate the book, I would neither select nor recommend it to others as a resource in teaching (quantitative) research methods or research designs courses.... view less
Keywords
research; secondary analysis; social research; quantitative method; intercultural factors; method
Classification
Research Design
Document language
English
Publication Year
2003
Page/Pages
p. 203-213
Journal
Historical Social Research, 28 (2003) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.28.2003.4.203-213
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; reviewed