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What
is SCCR?
SCCR,
founded in 1971, is a multi-disciplinary organization of about 150
members. Its members all share a common devotion to the conduct of
cross-cultural research. SCCR members are professionals and students
from the social science fields of Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology,
and related fields including Education, Family Studies, Social Work,
Human Development, Psychiatry, Communications, Ethnic Studies,
Business, etc. Compared with other academic organizations, SCCR is
fundamentally inter-disciplinary and provides members the opportunity
to network with scholars from a wide variety of approaches.
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Doug Raybeck (Hamilton College)
A former president
of SCCR
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As
stated in its bylaws, “The purpose of the Society is to support and
encourage interdisciplinary,
comparative research that has as its objective the establishment
of scientifically described generalizations about human behavior.” As
the field of cross-cultural studies evolves into the 21st century, SCCR
keeps its door open to a variety of theoretical and methodological
viewpoints. The full range of papers presented at its annual meetings
now includes approaches (most often comparative) that are
cross-cultural or multi-cultural, etic or emic, scientific or applied,
quantitative or qualitative, and focused on both human universality and
diversity. The Society sponsors the quarterly journal Cross-Cultural
Research (Sage Publications) and also publishes the SCCR Newsletter.
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Some students at the 2008 New Orleans meeting with their posters
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