Comparing Societies and Cultures. Challenges of Cross-Cultural Survey Research as an Approach to Spatial Analysis.

»Gesellschaftsund Kulturvergleich. Die Leistungsfähigkeit der interkulturell-vergleichenden Umfrageforschung als Methode der Raumanalyse«. The paper shows how cross-cultural, cross-societal, cross-national, multinational and international comparative survey researchers have been handling space since the 1950s and how it can be used for spatial analysis. Using the concepts of the Survey Life Cycle and the Total Survey Error (TSE), the paper discusses two major methodological problems cross-cultural survey methodology faces: The problems of (1) equivalence and (2) demarcation.