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Practices of Comparing: Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice
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Abstract 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... mehr
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.... weniger
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Practices; Theory; Comparing; Comparison; Historical Change; Digital Humanities; Society; Cultural History; Literature; Literary Studies; Political Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Verlag
Bielefeld University Press
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
406 S.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451663
ISBN
978-3-8394-5166-3
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)