Practices of Comparing Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice

• Other Authors: Epple, Angelika (Editor), Erhart, Walter (Editor), Grave, Johannes (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld University Press 2020
• Subjects: Society & social sciences; Practices; Theory; Comparing; Comparison; Historical Change; Digital Humanities; Society; Cultural History; Literature; Literary Studies; Political Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge; Bielefeld University Press
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration. Its contributions combine case studies with overarching systematic considerations. They show what insights can be gained and which further questions arise when one makes a seemingly trivial practice - comparing - the subject of in-depth research.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (406 p.)

ISBN

9783839451663

Access

Open Access