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Comments on “The Comparative Method in the Social Sciences”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Anatol Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport*
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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In relating the problem of comparison to that of conceptualization, Dr. Sjoberg brings into focus a central methodological problem of social science. For to compare is to discover unity in diversity and differences among similarities, that is, to uncover structure. The first act in this process is to name the parts and the relations among them, and naming, of course, both stems from and induces conceptualizations.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 1955 , pp. 118 - 122
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1955

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