comparativist
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- noun
- /kəmˈpærəˌtɪvɪst/
- Specialized
- Comparativists have made civil-military relations a point of emphasis precisely because the ubiquity of coups and military dictatorships makes the problematique so obviously a principal issue for political studies in other countries.
Examples
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The question is not whether East/Central European scholars are also theoretically oriented comparativists, but rather which body or insights of theory are the most appropriate ones to use.
Academic text (2002) -
Professionally, I am neither a political scientist nor a sociologist, but a literary critic, a comparativist who loves to approach literature in the Goethean sense of World Literature.
Academic text (1993) -
As the late master comparativist Patrick Glenn explained,
Academic text (2016) -
To someone trained as a comparativist, the reasons for engaging in comparative research on any political phenomenon are obvious, but no less important for being so.
Academic text (1992) -
As an aside, for comparativists out there: please note how for this particular crisis/event, The Monkey Cage has turned into a forum for multiple regional specialists to have their views heard.
Blog text (9) -
As a result, not only have Mary Antin and others become comparativists by force of circumstance, but immigrants as groups have raised the question of difference within the nation-state and with regard to each other.
Academic text (1994) -
Comparativists use innovations to distinguish between languages descended from a common linguistic ancestor, such as Proto-Atlantic, and languages belonging to different intermediate subgroups.
Academic text (2004) -
Much as development economists have come to promote intra-South trade as a response to unfavorable North-South capital flows and terms of trade, so have comparativist administrative scientists encouraged analysis of managerial experiences and experiments in some developing nations for possible application in others.
Academic text (1993) -
This inattention may reflect differences in the subfields, with IR scholars privileging international variables and comparativists assuming the primacy of internal causes.
Academic text (2013) -
A comparativist examines various literary works from different cultures to uncover universal themes.
Surface Forms
Morphology
comparativist = comparative (transparent) = comparative + ist
The noun is a standard agentive formation from 'comparative' + '-ist', meaning a person who practices or specializes in comparative study — a readily inferable relation.
Etymology
Comparativist comes from the verb compare, from parts com- 'with' and par- 'equal', meaning someone who puts things together to check how they match. So a comparativist is a person who studies different subjects by looking at them 'side by side' to see what is alike or different.