Comparative (disambiguation)

Comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) things or groups of things.

Comparative may also refer to:

Language

 * Comparison (grammar), the grammar of comparatives in various languages
 * 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