Symposium Description:
Scholar and the general public alike have long perceived the need to understand more of global issues that have varying impact on the well being of modern societies. Such needs entail more of the cross-cultural research study of human behavior and society to seek answers to questions about those problems across a wide domain. In addition to the demand for the comparative research in response to the issues human beings are now facing, aspects of this scientific method focusing on systematic comparisons themselves such as its process, concepts, features, problems encountered, and ethical issues also need to be examined and re-examined, especially when the advent of information technology helps make online data collection methods possible.