Martin Abraham, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany. His main fields of research are sociological theory, economic sociology and sociology of organizations. He is especially interested in problems of cooperation and trust in economic, organizational and private relationships. Within this framework, empirical and theoretical research projects focus on employment relationships, family and work, self-employment, and inter-firm relations.

Jon Alexander, Ph.D., teaches political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. A former Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, he taught at UCLA, Emory University and Columbia University, and has lectured in nine other countries. His research interests include philosophy of science and technology (S&T), S&T policy, democratic theory, political communications and social engineering. He has published five books and numerous articles in, e.g., the American Political Science Review, the Canadian Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Canadian Review of American Studies, Reseaux, Mondes en developpement, and Nouvelles de la science et des technologies.

Nehama Babin, Ph.D., is Associate Director in the Office of Institutional Studies at the University of Maryland and Assistant Editor on the journal Armed Forces and Society. She was Research Sociologist at the U.S. Army Research Institute for approximately eleven years, before moving into higher education. Her areas of specialization are military, organizational, and comparative sociology. Her research covers cross-national studies of the transformation of military organizations over time. From 1994 to 1998 she was Executive Secretary of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution.

Eleonora Barbieri Masini, Ph.D., is Professor of Futures Studies for Human and Social Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical Gregorian University (from 1976). She was chairperson of the Futures Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (1978–1997) and President of the World Futures Studies Federation (1980–1990). She is a member of the Club of Rome and coordinator of the Project WIN Emergency and Solidarity, UNESCO (from 1994). She has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of [Page xvi]Economic Sciences, Budapest (1998). Among her recent publications are: Women, Household and Change, UNU Press, Tokyo, 1991; Why Futures Studies?, Grey Seal Books, London, 1993; The Futures of Cultures, ed., UNESCO, Paris, 1994.

Richard G. Braungart, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and International Relations in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He teaches courses in political sociology, international political psychology, and life-course and generational politics. Richard received his Ph.D. in sociology from the Pennsylvania State University, and taught at Pennsylvania State and University of Maryland. He served as a Research Director for the President's Commission on Campus Unrest in 1970, co-founded the American Sociological Association Section on Political Sociology, and is the past President of the ISA's Committee on Political Sociology, an international organization jointly affiliated with the International Political Science Association. He is the author and editor of eleven books and has published over one hundred articles and chapters.

Margaret M. Braungart, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Health Sciences and Human Studies at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse. She teaches courses in developmental psychology, educational psychology, gerontology, health psychology, and illness and death. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Syracuse University in 1980, and has co-authored a number of articles in the area of life-course and generations, most recently related to the topics of youth violence and citizenship, youth movements, and political socialization and education. She is Co-Director of the Center for Research on Life-Course and Generational Politics. Margaret and Richard Braungart's works have been translated into eight languages.

William C. Cockerham, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Medicine, and Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He serves as Chair of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Social Medicine. He is author of Medical Sociology (Prentice-Hall, 1998) and numerous other books and journal articles in the sociology of health. His most recent books include Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 1999) and the edited Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology (Blackwell, forthcoming). His current interest is health lifestyles and post-modernity.

Graham Dann, Ph.D., received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom in 1975. For the next 21 years he taught at the University of the West Indies, Barbados, before returning to Britain to take up a professorial position in tourism at the University of Luton. He is a founder member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and of the research committee on tourism of the International Sociological Association. He is a member of the editorial board of four leading tourism journals. His research interests lie in the sociology of tourism and, in particular, the areas of motivation and promotion.

Mattei Dogan, Ph.D., is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is chairman of the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology of the International Sociological Association, and of the Committee on Political Elites of the International Political Science Association. His recent publications include Pathways to Power; L'Innovation dans les sciences sociales; Comparing Nations; and Elites, Crises and the Origins of Regimes.

Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has published widely on social stratification and social mobility, in Dutch and in English, as well as on the sociology of arts and culture. He was the secretary of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Social Mobility of the International Sociological Association (1990–1998). He is the principal designer of the International Socio-Economic Index of occupational status (ISEI) and maintains the International Stratification and Mobility File (http://www.fss.uu.nl/soc/hg/ismf).

Carla A. Green, Ph.D., is a sociologist and senior research associate at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. As a Fulbright scholar, she studied physical and emotional well-being among Moroccan women, and later worked on a cross-national study examining, among other things, quality of life among groups of never-treated and treated Moroccan and American schizophrenic patients. She is currently working on projects assessing the home- and community-based care needs of severely mentally ill HMO members, the effects of closure of a Social HMO, and quality-of-life outcomes among elderly individuals receiving home care.

Line Grenier, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at the Universite de Montreal. Her field of specialization is popular music studies. She has published on French-language popular music in Quebec in journals such as Popular Music, New Formations, Communication, Sociologie et Societes, and Cultural Studies. Her current research focuses on the genealogy of the “chanson dispositif” in Quebec, its role in the development of music-related industries as well as its effect on the politicization of fame.

Pierre Hamel, Ph.D., is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology at the University of Montreal. His research interests are focused on new models of urban governance and social movements. He has recently finished a research project on local democracy and public consultation. His books include Action Collective et Democratic Locale (Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1991) and Urban Movements in a Globalising World (co-editor, Routledge, forthcoming).

Antoine Hennion, Ph.D., is Director of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France. His areas of research include innovation, culture, and music. His current research is on sociology of culture, mass media [Page xviii]and sociology of music. He is President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Arts of the International Sociological Association. He is a nominated member of the Comite Scientifique de la Recherche at the Ministere de la Culture in France, and of the Conseil du Patrimoine ethnologique and the Conseil scientifique du Musee de la Musique.

Christine Inglis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Policy Studies in Education; Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Education; and Director of the Multicultural Research Centre at the University of Sydney. She is past President of the Resarch Committee on Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and current Vice-President for Publications of ISA. She has published extensively on ethnic and minority relations. Among her publications are: Multiculturalism: New Policy Responses to Diversity (1996); and (with J. Elley and L. Manderson) Asians in Australia: The Dynamics of Migration and Settlement (1992).

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman was born in New York City. She earned a B.A. degree at Queens College (CUNY); an M.A. in sociology at the University of Haifa; and a doctorate (Dr. Rer. Soc.) at the University of Konstanz, in Germany, where she studied with Thomas Luckmann. Currently President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee for the Study of Alienation, she has edited a book of readings, Designs for Alienation (Jyvskyl, Finland: SoPhi Press). Her research, in about 70 publications, focuses for the most part on the explicit and implicit ways mustered in educational institutions to ensure an acceptance of alienating conditions as the natural human state.

Susan Kinnevy received her MSW from George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. Her area of expertise is child welfare, with a concentration in juvenile justice. Her research includes diversion programs for juvenile offenders, behavioral interventions with high-risk adolescents, and group work with pregnant and parenting teenagers. She is active internationally, working for U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Bert Klandermans, Ph.D., is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published widely on social movement mobilization and participation. He edited (with Hank Johnston) Social Movements and Culture, and (with Craig Jenkins) The Politics of Social Protest, both published in 1995 by the University of Minnesota Press. His book The Social Psychology of Protest was published in 1997 by Blackwell. He is the editor of the book series Social Movements, Protest, and Contention published by the University of Minnesota Press. From 1994–1998 he was President of the Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee of ISA.

Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA. He has written widely on social movements, globalization and new citizenship questions. He is currently working on a book relating issues in visual sociology to urban forms of collective behavior.

Louis Maheu, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Montreal. He currently chairs the Research Committee on Social Movements and Social Classes of the International Sociological Association. Among his recent publications are the edited volume Social Movements and Social Classes: The Future of Collective Action (1995) and “Social Movements in Quebec: Environmental Groups as a Cultural Challenge to the Neo-Corporatist Order” in Quebec Society: Critical Issues (edited by M. Fournier et al., 1997).

William Michelson, Ph.D., is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he also serves as Associate Dean, Social Sciences, in the Office of the Dean of Arts and Science. His longstanding research interests focus on the place of social and physical contexts in people's everyday lives, with most recent applications to home-based work. He is the author of Man and his Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach; Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction; From Sun to Sun: Daily Obligations and Community Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families, and other works.

Clyde R. Pope, Ph.D., is a sociologist and senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at Portland State University, and adjunct professor of psychiatry and of public health at Oregon Health Sciences University. In his 12 years as associate director of the Center for Health Research, he helped develop the Center's research programs in mental health and substance abuse. His current interests include mental health and mental health services research; studies of health beliefs, health attitudes, and health behaviors; and investigations of patient satisfaction and consumer choices.

Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University. His research interests include demography, human ecology, and the sociology of gender, with special attention to the populations of China, Taiwan and Korea. His most recent books are (with David Yaukey) The Population of Modern China (1992); (with Leon F. Bouvier) Thirty Million Texans? (1993); (with Toni Falbo and Zhenming Xie) Research on Single Children in China (1997, in Chinese); and (with Michael Micklin), Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology (1998).

Rumi Kato Price, Ph.D., M.P.E. is an epidemiologist/sociologist specializing in psychiatric and substance abuse epidemiology. She is currently Research Assistant [Page xx]Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Dr. Price is the recipient of a US National Institute on Drug Abuse Independent Scientist Award to investigate interactions between psychopathology and environments relevant to substance abuse and psychiatric illness. She is Principal Investigator of several research grants from the US National Institutes of Health, including a 25-year follow up of a U.S. cohort and a five-country international epidemiology project.

Gilles Pronovost, Ph.D., is Professor at the Université du Québec Trois-Rivires since 1970. He was the President of the ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Leisure (1994–1998) and President of the Organising Committee for the 14th World Congress of Sociology, Montréal, 1998. In 1978 he founded the international journal Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure, published twice a year by l'Université du Québec. He recently published The Sociology of Leisure (Current Sociology, vol. 46–3, 1998), Loisir et société. Traitede sociologie empirique (1993, 2nd edn 1997); Sociologie du temps (1996); and Médias et pratiques culturelles (1996). His research focuses on the sociology of time, cultural participation, the social uses of the new information technologies with respect to intergenerational relationship.

Stella R. Quah, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her areas of research interest include medical sociology, sociology of the family, social policy and sociology of the professions. She has published extensively on these areas. Among her books are: Friends in Blue: The Police and the Public in Singapore, with J.S.T. Quah (Oxford, 1987); The Triumph of Practicality (ISEAS, 1989); Social Class in Singapore, co-author (Times Academic Press, 1991); and Family in Singapore (Times Academic Press, Second Edition, 1998). She was Vice-President for Research of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and Chairman of the ISA Research Council (1994–1998).

Rhoda Reddock, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. She was Associate Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and former Chairperson of the Research Committee on Women and Society of the International Sociological Association. She has published numerous articles and books including, Women, Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago, A History (Zed Books, 1994), Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences (Berg, 1998), and Caribbean Sociology: Introductory Readings (co-editor, in press). She is an active member of the women's movement and founder of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action. Her current research interests are in the area of race/ethnicity, social class and gender in the Caribbean.

Arnaud Sales, Ph.D. (Doctorat dÉtat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Paris VII) is Professeur titulaire at the Department of Sociology, Université de Montréal. He has published numerous articles in international refereed journals. He is author, co-author or editor of several books and issues of academic journals, among them La Bourgeoisie industrielle au Québec (1979), Développement national [Page xxi]et économie mondialisée (Editor, 1979), Décideurs et gestionnaires (1985), La recomposition du politique (Co-editor, 1991), Québec, fin de siecle (Co-editor, 1994). He is a specialist in economic sociology focusing on administrative and economic elites, knowledge workers and the sociology of enterprise. He was Vice-Dean of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Graduate Studies (1987–1992); and Vice-President, International, of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (1995–1998) where he founded the Knowledge, Economy and Society Network. He was elected Vice-President for Research (1998–2002) of the International Sociological Association.

David R. Segal, Ph.D., is Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Professor of Sociology and of Government and Politics, and Director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland. He is a past president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, former chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict, and current president of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society. His research focuses on peacekeeping operations, and on military manpower and personnel issues.

Barbara H. Settles, Ph.D., is Professor of Individual and Family Studies and Senior Fellow in the Center for Community Development and Family Policy, University of Delaware. She is president of the Committee for Family Research of the International Sociological Association (second term); president of the Delaware-Panama Partners of the Americas chapter; life member and past vice-president of Public Policy of the National Council on Family Relations; former President and elected to the Academy of the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family; has served on the executive committee of the family section of the American Sociological Association and on the Council of the American Association of University Professors. She is recipient of federal and state funded research projects on families and youths planning for their futures.

Donald J. Treiman, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His areas of specialization are stratification and mobility, demography, and comparative and historical sociology. His current research focuses on cross-national comparative study of social stratification and mobility, social stratification in South Africa, in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe. He has published widely on these areas of research.

Ivan Varga, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Religion of the International Sociological Association, a member of the Editorial Board of International Sociology and Scientific Advisor of the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Science. Among his most recent publications are “A la recherche de temps futur: Religion et politique en Hongrie aprs 1989”, in P. Michel (ed.), Religion, Politique et Société en Europe Centrale et Orientale (L'Autre Europe, No. 36–37, 1999, Paris); and “Time and Everyday [Page xxii]Life in the Transformation of East European Societies”, in A. Nesti, P. De Marco, A. Iacopozzi (eds.), Il tempo e il sacro nelle societ post-industriali (Milan 1997).

Willem Van Vliet, Ph.D., He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado. He is editor of the recently published Encyclopedia of Housing.

Thomas Voss, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include rational choice theory, economic sociology and organization theory. He currently works on game theoretical explanations of social norms. In economic sociology, he is doing empirical research on the social embeddedness of economic transactions between business firms. Since 1998 he has been president of the Research Committee on Rational Choice of the International Sociological Association.

John Walton is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He studies and writes about history, international development, rebellion, urban and community sociology. His most recent book is Free Markets and Flood Riots: The Politics of Global (Blackwell, 1994). Soon to be released is Reclaiming History: Community and Collective Memory in Monterey. He has been closely associated for several decades with the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development.