Gaining Insight from Incomparability: Exploratory Comparison in Studies of Social Practices.
This paper suggests an experimental approach to comparison. It is argued that comparing should be detached from the question of adequacy in order to regain it as an analytical and explorative tool. This approach is put to work by comparing boxing to computer programming. Drawing on comparisons of sp...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Sociology Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 338 - 362 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2008
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