1. These scholars criticize approaches that treat countries as a complex of variables. We agreewiththiscritique,butbelievethat both methodologies are compatible. Analyses such as ours can develop a rough sketchofthedifferencesbetweencountriesandculturesbutcannotreplaceahistori calapproachoftheparticularconditionsinacountry.Thisstudydidnottakedevel opmental,historicalpathsofindividualsocietiesintoaccount.Consequently,theex planatory power of our findings is limited;Pfau-Effinger,2004
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