Focused Ethnographic Bibliography: Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
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Standard Cross- Cultural Sample
CULTURAL SAMPLE The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, or SCCS (Murdock and White 1969), is a cumulative and collaborative database of coded variables on maximally diverse and ethnographically best-described societies used by scholars in the social sciences. The champion of modern cross-cultural and statistical methods, George P. Murdock, in preparation for a standard sample, had classified the 1,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavior Science Research
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0094-3673
DOI: 10.1177/106939718902300102