The phrase "in a comparative perspective" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it in the following sentence: "The history of art can be studied in a comparative perspective, to better understand how different cultures and time periods have influenced art."
Another user, posting as T-maxdo, suggested the film should be viewed through a "comparative perspective", writing: "In 1977, the United States already had such stunning imaginative creativity and movie special effects, while China had just ended the cultural revolution period and its people had just emerged from a dark era".
Ryan is also working with historians in South Africa, Canada, and the United States to consider massacres from a comparative perspective.
Unlike English majors, we were required to take classes in a foreign literature and expected to think about big questions -- like "What is literature?" -- from a comparative perspective.
"Although it is not at all clear what it is about Anglo-Saxon culture that makes predominantly English-speaking countries especially punitive, they are," Mr. Tonry wrote last year in "Crime, Punishment and Politics in Comparative Perspective".
Taking all these distinctive features together, it is fair to say that Confucianism offers an especially rich moral psychology (see Nivison, 1996, for several influential essays on moral psychology in comparative perspective, including "Motivation and Moral Action in Mencius," "Philosophical Voluntarism in Fourth-Century China," "Two Roots or One?" and "Xunzi on 'Human Nature'").
"In comparative perspective, the Patriot Act appears mundane and mild," Kent Roach, a law professor at the University of Toronto, writes in a new book, "The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism".
Why "France's New Deal?" [ image: /photos/590953d0019dfc3494e9e53f]Titling my book as I did was meant to invite readers to think about the postwar remaking of the French state in comparative perspective.
A recent study by the economists Aditi Gandhi, formerly of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, and Michael Walton of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard attempts to parse the sources of the wealth of India's billionaires as well as placing the Indian experience in comparative perspective.
