Comparative Charting of Social Change
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CCSC is an international sociological program for the comparison of recent social
trends in industrialized societies. It was founded in 1987.
Different national teams
have joined this international program in order to study the same period (from the 1960s to the 1990s)
with the same purposes, which are the following:
to provide a comprehensive, numerically grounded description of recent social trends
in industrial societies, using a common outline
to gather appropriate data bases for cross-national comparisons
to identify similarities and differences among the national societies with respect to ongoing social trends
to subject these similarities and differences to comparative studies
to establish benchmarks for future tracking of social trends
Last update: July 2004