The Way We Live
Introduction to Sociology

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Howard Aldrich, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Management at Kenan-Flagler Business School

Tomas Almaguer, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

Nancy Ammerman, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology of Religion, School of Theology, Boston University

Gerard Anderson, Professor in the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University

Richard Arum, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of Educational Research, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University

David Bennett, Pan American Health Organization

Peter Berger, Ph.D., Director of Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University

Timothy Biblarz, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Director of Graduate Studies, to Department of Sociology, University of Southern California

Jeffrey Birnbaum, Washington Bureau Chief to Fortune Magazine.

James Birren, Ph.D., D.Sc., Associate Director, Center on Aging, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles

Edna Bonacich, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Kevin Boyle, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University

Noel Brown, Former Director, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). President, Friends of the United Nations.

Craig Calhoun, Ph.D., President, Social Science Research Council and Professor of Sociology and History, New York University

Francesca Cancian, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Chris K. Chase-Dunn, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Institute for Research on World Systems (IROWS), University of California, Riverside

Alex Capron, Ph.D., Professor of Law and Medicine and Co-Director of the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethnics at the University of Southern California.

John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.

Daniel F. Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Hamilton College.

Joseph Chamie, Ph.D, Director of the Population Division, Department for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations.

Peter Clarke, Director of Health and Medical Communication at The University of Southern California. Professor of Preventive Medicine and Communication at The University of Southern California. Co-author of Surviving Modern Medicine.

Scott Coltrane, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Family Studies, University of California, Riverside

Dalton Conley, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research, and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, New York University

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles

Diane Cunningham, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Los Angeles Community Colleges

William D’Antonio, Ph.D., Visiting Research Professor in Sociology, The Catholic University of America.

Mary Jo Del Vecchio Good, Ph.D., Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

G. William Domhoff, Research Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Mitchell Duneier, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Princeton University,
and City University of New York, The Graduate Center.

Troy Duster, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, New York University and President of the American Sociological Association (2004-2005)

Mickey Edwards, Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Glen H. Elder, Jr., Ph.D., Howard Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

John P. Elia, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University.

James Elias, Ph.D., Director, Center for Sex Research and Professor of Sociology, California State University, Northridge

Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D., University Professor, The George Washington University

Claude S. Fischer, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Estelle Freedman, Ph.D., Professor of History, Stanford University.

Denise Froning, Policy Analyst, Center for International Trade and Economics, The Heritage Foundation.

Donna Gaines, Ph.D., author of Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead End Kids and A Misfit’s Manifesto: The Spiritual Journey of a Rock and Roll Heart

Joshua Gamson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco

Linda K. George, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

James Gilbert, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park.

Deborah T. Gold, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medical Sociology at Duke University Medical Center.

Joshua Golden, Psychiatrist, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Erich Goode, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park

Lindsey Grant, Author of Juggernaut.  Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Population.

David Halle, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Leroy Neiman Center for the Study of Society and American Culture, University of California, Los Angeles

Joel Handler, J.D., Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law, UCLA Law School and Professor of Policy Studies at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research.

Astrid Heger, MD, Director, Violence Intervention Program at Los Angeles County, University of Southern California Medical Center.

John Heeren, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino

Arlie Hochschild, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Dean Hoge, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, The Catholic University of America

Darnell Hunt, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of Ralph J. Bunche Center for African-American Studies, and interim Chair of African-American Studies Program, UCLA

Richard Ingersoll, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

Linda Jacobson, Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Our Family Coalition.

Matthew Jacobson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Studies, and History, Yale University.

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Demography, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Juergensmeyer, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies, Sociology, and Director of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Arne Kalleberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Philip Kasinitz, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, and Associate Director of Center for Urban Research, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Martha Kempner, Director of Public Relations, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, SIECUS

Ivy Kennelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, The George Washington University

George Lakoff, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Annette Lareau, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Temple University.
Author, Home Advantage and Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life and Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Mark Laret, Chief Executive Officer of Medical Center Administration at the University of California, San Francisco.

Jack Levin, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Criminology, and Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University.

Donald W. Light, MD, Professor of Comparative Health Care Systems and Director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Warren Lipson, Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine, Gerontology, Clinical Pharmacy, Medical Dentistry and Public Health, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy.

John Macionis, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Prentiss Hall Distinguished Scholar, Kenyon College.

Michael Mann, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Marcia Marx, Associate Professor, Ph.D., California State University, San Bernardino

Paula D. McClain, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Law at Duke University.

Ruth Milkman, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, and Director of Institute for Labor & Employment, UCLA

Craig Miller, Director and Founder AIDSWalk Los Angeles

Harvey Molotoch, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University.

Daniel J. Monti Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Boston University

Alfred Moss, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park

Laura Mosqueda, MD, Director of Geriatrics at University of California, Irvine

Chad Nelsen, The Surf Rider Foundation

Myron Orleans, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in Sociology, Chapman University

Caroline Persell, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, New York University

Bernice Pescosolido, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

Stephen Pitti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University.

Frances Fox Piven, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Francesca Polletta, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University

David Popenoe, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the National Marriage Project, Rutgers University

Nicole Raeburn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco

Raka Ray, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Robert Reich, J.D., Former Secretary of Labor (1993-1997), Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University.

Daniel Rodgers, Ph.D., Professor of History, Princeton University.

Wade Clark Roof, Ph.D., Professor of Religion and Society and Director of Center for Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kay Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Boston College.

Jason Schnittker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

Jerald Schutte, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, California State University, Northridge

William B. Schwartz, M.D., Professor of Research Medicine, University of Southern California.

Denise Segura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

David A. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Sandra S. Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University

Judith Stacey, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender and Sexuality, New York University

Stephen Steele, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park

Mitchell Stevens, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Educational Sociology, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University

Megan Sweeney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Verta Taylor, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Craig E. Thompson, Executive Director, AIDS Project Los Angeles

Barrie Thorne, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Chair of Department of Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Wendy Tokuda, Reporter, Students Rising Above

Judith Treas, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Jonathan Turner, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
University of California, Riverside.

H. Richard Uviller, LL.B., Arthur Levitt Professor of Law, Columbia Law School of Political Science, Boston College. Author of Tempered Zeal, Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America.

Diane Vaughan, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Boston College. Author, The Challenger Launch Decision.

Sidney Verba, Ph.D., Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Princeton University.

Linda J. Waite, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago.

Gregory L. Weiss, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Roanoke College.

John B. Williamson, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Boston College.

William Julius Wilson, Ph.D., University Professor, Harvard University.

Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University.

Gail Elizabeth Wyatt, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Plato Yip, Friends of the Earth, Hong Kong.

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