Cross-national research in sociology

TLDR: The case of legal domination of Max Weber and the modernization of China and Japan is discussed in this article. But the case is different from ours in the sense that it deals with a different context: the United States, Japan and Poland.

Abstract: PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH Verificational Functions of Comparative Social Studies and the Present State and Problems of Theory in Sociology - Stefan Nowak New Directions in Comparative Research - Charles Ragin Cross-national Research as an Analytic Strategy - Melvin L Kohn PART TWO: MAX WEBER'S ENDURING PERTINENCE FOR CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH Legitimate Domination in Comparative-historical Perspective - Wlodzimierz Wesolowski The Case of Legal Domination Max Weber and the Modernization of China and Japan - Ken'ichi Tominaga PART THREE: NATION AS CONTEXT: PRIMARY ANALYSES Effects of Status-inconsistency on the Intellective Process in the United States, Japan, and Poland - Kazimierz M Slomczynski Transition from School to Work in the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union - Artur Meier Universals and Particularities of Socialist Educational Systems Class Structure and Class Formation - Erik Olin Wright, Carolyn Howe and Donmoon Cho A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Sweden Class Mobility During the Working Life - Karl Ulrich Mayer et al A Cross-national Comparison between Germany and Norway PART FOUR: NATION AS CONTEXT: SECONDARY ANALYSES Cross-national Research and the Analysis of Educational Systems - Margaret S Archer Alternatives in the Health Area - Magdalena Sokolowska and Andrzej Rychard Poland in Comparative Perspective Ethnicity, Immigration, and Cultural Pluralism - T K Oommen India and the United States of America PART FIVE: NATION AS CONTEXT: MULTI-NATIONAL ANALYSES The Professional-Proletarian Bind - Aaron Antonovsky Doctors' Strikes in Western Societies Action and Reaction - Janet Saltzman Chafetz and Anthony Gary Dworkin An Integrated, Comparative Perspective on Feminist and Antifeminist Movements PART SIX: NATION AS 'UNIT OF ANALYSIS' AND TRANS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS The Other Working Class - Bryan R Roberts Uncommitted Labor in Britain, Spain, and Mexico Educational and Occupational Attainment in 21 Countries - Donald J Treiman and Kam-Bor Yip Conceptions of Christendom - John W Meyer Notes on the Distinctiveness of the West