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In the last decades more and more social scientists seem to agree with the opinion expressed by R. Marsh in his book, Comparative Sociology, that: Cross-social comparative analysis is fundamental to any general sociological or anthropological theory.1
Reprinted with certain modifications from Synthese 24, (1972).
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Nowak, S. (1976). Comparative Social Research and Methodological Problems of Sociological Induction. In: Understanding and Prediction. Synthese Library, vol 94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9930-1_4
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