Lipset's 'Democracy in Private Government' was a remarkable publication for three reasons. It was his first attempt to challenge Michels' 'iron law of oligarchy' and would lead to a programme of research that that would culminate with the publication of the widely admired classic study Union Democracy. Second, the inspiration for this work came from Lipset's student days when he was a socialist...

This article maps the development and uses of comparative method in academic research since 1970s. It is based on an original database that we constructed for our review 12,483 articles extracted from leading journals representing disciplines Social Policy, Political Science Sociology. We proceed to a quantitative qualitative analysis reported effort. find became mainstream 1990s – following pu...

In this article, I extend recent macro-comparative empirical research on the developmental implications of global production networks. I draw from theories of commodity/value chains, global production networks and economic sociology to identify three contending theoretical perspectives for exactly how the developmental returns to network participants should be distributed—cooperation, exploitat...

Diversity does not always get a positive response from the community because diversity often conflicts with developing cultures. This article aims to discover sociological approach in Islamic studies. The library research method is used variety of relevant sources. study results indicate that characteristics studies emphasize muamalah worship rather than ubudiyah. Theories include functional th...

Scholars in the area of Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology explicitly seek to examine the interplay of social and environmental factors with evolved biological factors and its implications for social behavior. It is a broad area covering a wide array of research topics and methodologies. Neurosociologists in the area describe the neural circuitry underlying social processes, such as empa-t...