Cross-cultural studies

Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences such as sociology, psychology, economics, political science that uses field data from many societies through comparative research to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture.

Cross-cultural studies is the third form of cross-cultural comparisons. The first is comparison of case studies, the second is controlled comparison among variants of a common derivation, and the third is comparison within a sample of cases.[1] Unlike comparative studies, which examines similar characteristics of a few societies, cross-cultural studies uses a sufficiently large sample so that statistical analysis can be made to show relationships or lack of relationships between the traits in question.[2] These studies are surveys of ethnographic data, or involve qualitative data collection.[3]

Cross-cultural studies are applied widely in the social sciences, particularly in cultural anthropology and psychology.

  1. ^ van de Vijver, Fons J. R. (2009-03-01). "Types of Comparative Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology". Online Readings in Psychology and Culture. 2 (2). doi:10.9707/2307-0919.1017. ISSN 2307-0919.
  2. ^ Brislin, Richard W. (January 1976). "Comparative Research Methodology: Cross-Cultural Studies". International Journal of Psychology. 11 (3): 215–229. doi:10.1080/00207597608247359. ISSN 0020-7594.
  3. ^ Sha, Mandy (2020-04-30). Sha, Mandy (ed.). Cross-Cultural Comparison of Focus Groups as a Research Method (Chapter 8) in The Essential Role of Language in Survey Research. RTI Press. pp. 151–179. doi:10.3768/rtipress.bk.0023.2004. ISBN 978-1-934831-24-3.

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