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Trust : comparative perspectives
Trust is a hypothesis about future behavior that is certain enough to serve as a basis for practical conduct. Many contend that trust is one of society's integrative forces. Identifying how entities trust is especially important work for social scientists.
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The Bearing of Comparative Analysis on Sociological Theory
Regardless of one's field of interest within sociology (or social anthropology or social psychology), studies which explicitly and systematically compare data from two or more societies can make distinctive contributions to theory. Four of these contributions are: (1) to broaden the range of variation in variables, thereby requiring theory to explain more than it has heretofore; (2) to replicate studies done in one society in other, similar societies; (3) to generalize propositions from one type of society to other types of societies; and (4) to specify apparently discrepant findings from different societies by developing new propositions which account for the originally discrepant findings. A number of comparative studies, drawn from the several hundred published since 1950, and distributed through a wide variety of sub-fields of sociology, are codified in terms of these four kinds of contributions that comparative analysis can make to sociological theory.
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The Taiwanese of Taipei: Some Major Aspects of their Social Structure and Attitudes
STUDENTS of Chinese society should devote more attention to urban Taiwan, for several reasons. First, whatever the relative significance of Taiwan and Communist China in the world, Taiwanese social life can at least be studied at first hand over a protracted period, and with relatively little interference. The events on the China mainland since 1950 are often described as \"the most large scale experiment in social change in world history.\" Yet these events cannot be studied in the way social scientists prefer to do their research. Moreover, the most dramatic social events do not necessarily make the most important sociological problems; important...
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