Comparative (disambiguation)

The comparative is one of the degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.

Comparative may also refer to:

Language

• Comparative sentence, a sentence expressing a comparison between two entities
• Comparative case, a grammatical case used in the Mari language
• Comparative linguistics, a method used in the study of languages
• Comparative method (linguistics), a technique used in historical linguistics
• Quantitative comparative linguistics, a computational technique used in the study of languages

Literature

• Comparative Critical Studies, a literary journal
• Comparative literature, a method used in the study of literature

Social sciences

• Comparative contextual analysis, an epistemological method in philosophy
• Comparative Politics, a field and a method in the study of Politics
• Comparative education, a method used in the study of education
• Comparative Effectiveness, a term from health care intervention
• Comparative psychology, a method used in psychology
• Comparative sociology, a method used in sociology
• Historical comparative research, a technique of historical sociology
• Law of comparative judgment, a model of psychometrics and psychophysics
• Qualitative comparative analysis, a comparative tool used in various social science fields

Government and law

• American Journal of Comparative Law, a journal
• Comparative government, a method used in political science
• Comparative law, a method used in the study of law
• Comparative negligence, a partial legal defense
• Comparative politics, a method used in political science
• Comparative responsibility, a term from tort law

Biology

• Comparative anatomy, a technique used in the study of anatomy
• Comparative biology, a technique of biology
• Comparative cognition, a branch of biology
• Comparative genomics, a method used in genetics
• Comparative genomic hybridization, a technique of genetics
• Comparative neuropsychology, a technique for studying the brain
• Comparative physiology, a technique used in physiology
• Integrative and Comparative Biology, a journal
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard University
• Phylogenetic comparative methods, statistical and other techniques that incorporate phylogenetic information when comparing species

Cultural studies

• Comparative cultural studies, the study of cultures from a cross-cultural point of view
• Comparative history, a technique used in the study of history
• Comparative mythology, a method used in the study of mythology
• Comparative religion, a method used in the study of religion
• Comparative research, a cross-cultural technique
• List of Muslim comparative religionists, a who's who of Muslims engaged in comparative Islamic studies
• Studies in Comparative Religion, a journal

Economics

• Comparative advantage, a law of economics
• Comparative advertising, a marketing technique
• Comparative economic systems, a method of economics
• Comparative statics, a method of economics

See also

• All pages with titles containing Comparative
• The Comparative Method or Comparative Measurement in art is described in Atelier (art).
• Comparative analysis (disambiguation)
• Comparator
• Comparison (disambiguation)