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, as well as 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.

PICTURED: SCCR PRESIDENT, DEBORAH L. BEST (WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY)

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.