As you may have heard we are planning to launch a journal to run alongside PostGrad Cafe events. We are welcoming papers on all social science related topics. We intend the first issue to be published in the Autumn semester so would like to receive papers before the end of July. Please aim for approximately 3000 words and email your papers to the SOCSI PostGrad Cafe email address. If you have any comments or queries regarding the journal please do not hesitate to contact any member of the team.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Comparative cross-national research
At the last meeting on Wednesday 14th March Gerbrand Tholen spoke about comparative cross-national research drawing upon his PhD study. It was discussed how cross-national comparative research has become more prominent in recent years in response to the need to understand the rapid political, economic, and social changes being experienced by many nations. It was suggested that this research can provide social scientists with a useful base to understand how social phenomenon are mediated through national differences. Methodological and epistemological differences were touched upon and what it means to take the nation state as the unit of analysis. The question was asked 'should or can we move away from state-centred methodology'.
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