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

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

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

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