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

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 prac...

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Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bielefeld University Press 2020
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Bielefeld University Press
Book Industry Communication
Comparing
Comparison
Cultural History
Digital Humanities
Historical Change
Literary Studies
Literature
Political Sociology
Practices
Society
Society & social sciences
Sociology of Knowledge
Theory
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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.
ISBN:9783837651669
3837651665
DOI:10.14361/9783839451663