The Transient and the Subsumed: Some Epistemological Implications of Gross-Cultural Research

Multi‐National Evaluation of School Systems: Purposes, Methodology, and Some Preliminary Findings

“…Before the 1960's practically nothing had been done in that field. This is perhaps the main reason why comparative data still, and according to Holmes (1970) to a large extent, look more like catalogs or telephone directories than logical systems of information. Cross-cultural research is usually undertaken in the hope of arriving at theories valid across cultures and at achieving what Holmes calls an 'inter-cultural fit'.…”