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Comparative sociology is fiendishly diflicult. It has always strained to the uttermost the resources of theory and method available to what is, after all, an infant and underdeveloped intellectual discipline. Even the fact that one of its founding fathers, Max Weber, bequeathed us standards of stupendous achievement is also daunting: for he has few successors. All the more then must we admire Mr Williamson's attempt at an ambitious comparative sociology of education. It is a brave effort and promises much for the development of the subject. Mr Williamson is modest on behalf of his own achievement. He fully appreciates Professor Anderson's remark that comparison between complex societies is at once logically impossible and scientifically imperative. It is logically impossible for the absurd reason that you cannot compare complexities which are very different. It is scientifically imperative if sociology is to claim possession of general propositions. Williamson himself points out that powerful comparison presupposes articulated theory and standardised data. He also appreciates that education has to be studied historically as weIl as comparatively. The notorious problems of 'counter-

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Author

Bill Williamson (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333241370

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Education, Philosophy