Cross-Cultural Research Methods

Without ethnography, cross-cultural comparison would not be possible. But without cross-cultural comparison, we would know nothing of what may be universal or variable across human cultures, or why variation exists. Cross-Cultural Research Methods is an introductory teaching tool that shows students and potential researchers how to describe, compare, and analyze patterns that occur in different cultures-that is, how to form and test anthropological, sociological, psychological, medical, or political hypotheses about cultural variation.