Emile Durkheim argued in The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) that all sociological research was in fact comparative since social phenomenon are always held to be typical, representative or unique, all of which imply some sort of comparison.
Émile Durkheim menade i boken Sociologins metodregler från 1895 att all sociologisk forskning var komparativ eftersom alla sociala fenomen är typiska, representativa eller unika, vilka alla innebär någon slags jämförelse.