La comparaison dans les sciences sociales

What is the comparison? Why compare? How to develop a comparative approach? A comprehensive methodological guide.The proliferation of comparative research is in stark contrast with the lack of methodological reflection on the use and development of comparison. Why compare? How to develop a comparative approach? What cases compare? What challenges do we avoid? This book aims to define and help build the conditions for a rigorous use of comparison in a social sciences research. It allows us to reflect on the specificity of the comparative approach in each of the disciplines: can we find, beyond differences, a common logic for the social sciences? Building on the founding work of literature on comparison and recent international experiences in this field, this guide is a unique working instrument for students and researchers in the social sciences.