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Comparative sociology - the state of the art, Richard F. Tomasson. Part1 Modernization: modernization and other determinants of national birth,death and growth rates 1958-1972, Phillips Cutright and William R. Kelly;national differences in individual modernity, Alex Inkeles; cities andhomicide - a new look at an old paradox, Dane Archer et al; domestic serviceand industrialization, David Chaplin; revolution as cataclysm and coup -political transformation and economic development in Mexico and Brazil, SusanEckstein and Peter Evans; the ethnic systems of premodern Spain, Thomas F.Glick. Part 2 Social indicators and the qualityof life: value priorities,life satisfaction and political dissatisfaction among Western publics, RonaldInglehart; the relationship between objective and subjective indicators inthe light of a comparative study, Erik Alardt; government pensions for theaged in 19 industrialized countries - demonstration of a method forcross-national evaluation, Lincoln H. Day. Part 3 Two-case studies: an indexof evaluated equality - measuring conceptions of social justice in Englandand the United States, Wendell Bell and Robert V. Robinson; a formula forgenocide - comparison of the Turkish genocide (1915) and the German holocaust(1939-1945), Helen Fein; imperfectly unified elites - the cases of Italy andFrance, G. Lowell Field and John Higley; imperial development - the cases ofAmerican Puerto Rico and Soviet Georgia, Barry B. Levine and Ralph S. Clem.