Nicholas Hoover Wilson is associate professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India (Columbia, 2023). Damon Mayrl is associate professor of sociology at Colby College. He is the author of Secular Conversions: Political Institutions and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800–2000 (2016).
This book is a much-needed guide for how sociologists can think about and actually use comparison. Each chapter offers a novel and innovative contribution on the question of how comparison allows scholars to establish causality and construct theory. -- Carly Knight, New York University