3. The Meaningfulness of Comparison: A Macro-Phenomenological Exploration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. COMPARISON AFTER POSITIVISM 1
5. PART I WHY COMPARE?
6. 1. The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in Comparative Historical Analysis 27
7. 2. Comparison in Action: Immersion and Recursion as Heuristics in Historical Sociology 54
8. 3. The Meaningfulness of Comparison: A Macro-Phenomenological Exploration 76
9. 4. From Causality to Constitution: Why Good Historical Comparisons Are the Same as Good Ethnographic Case Studies, Deep Down 96
10. PART II WHAT TO COMPARE
11. 5. Process Theories and Comparative Sociology: Some Problems and a Solution 119
12. 6. Designing Narratives and Recovering Legal Narrativity: An Exploratory Essay 134
13. 7. Comparison, Context, and the Power of Modern Corruption 156
14. PART III. HOW TO COMPARE
15. 8. Comparative Sociology, Critical Realism, and Reflexivity 187
16. 9. Historicizing Comparisons in Historical Sociology 215
17. 10. How Not to Lie with Comparative Historical Sociology: A Realist Balance Sheet 238
18. 11. Historical Causation and Temporally Sensitive Comparisons 261
19. 12. The Dialectical Comparative Methodology 284
20. Afterword 331
21. Contributors 353
22. Index 357