The strange career of Millian methods in comparative social science.
For half a century, comparative social science has been closely associated with John Stuart Mill's methods of comparison. However, few social scientists had heard of Mill's methods in 1970. Within a decade, the methods of agreement and difference had become part of the methodological canon—despite M...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 103; no. 3; pp. 821 - 839 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2025
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