Contributors Reinhard Bendix (1916—) is a former president of the American Socio- logical Association and emeritus professor at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, where he served the departments of sociology and politi- cal science. Among his many books are Work and Authority in Industry, Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait, Embattled Reason, and Kings or People. Bennett M. Berger (1926—) is professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Working-Class Suburb, Look- ing for America, and The Survival of a Counterculture. Jessie Bernard (1903—) says she does not mind being called the doyenne of American sociology. She is the author or editor of literally scores of books on women, marriage, the family, and other subjects. Retired from her professorship but still as active as many sociologists half her age, she has had many honors bestowed on her. She lives in Washington, D.C. James S. Coleman (1926—) is University Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He has done distinguished work in a wide variety of sociological fields, from mathematical methods to rational choice theory. His many works include The Adolescent Society, Union Democ- racy, Community Conflict, Introduction to Mathematical Sociology, and Longitudinal Data Analysis. Donald R. Cressey (1919—1987) was professor of sociology at the Uni- versity of California, Santa Barbara, and the first dean of its College of ix x Contributors Letters and Science. The most important of his many studies in criminol- ogy are Other People's Money and Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America. Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (1933—) is professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a former president of the Eastern Sociological Society. Her research on women in the professions, business, and politics has produced such books as Women in Law, Access to Power, Woman's Place, and most recently Deceptive Distinctions. John Gagnon (1931—) was the first sociologist on the staff of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, and he is presently professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has written exten- sively on sex (much of it with William Simon) in books like Sexual Deviance, Sexual Conduct, and Human Sexualities. Herbert J. Gans (1927—) is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a former president of the American Sociologi- cal Association. Trained both as a sociologist and a planner, his research interests include urban studies, ethnicity, and mass communications. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is Middle Ameri- can Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy. Nathan Glazer (1923—) is professor of education and sociology at Har- vard University. He made his mark early as a co-author (with David Riesman and Reuel Denney) of The Lonely Crowd, and (with Daniel P. Moynihan) Beyond the Melting Pot. Among his other books are Ameri- can Judaism, The Social Basis of Communism, Remembering the An- swers, Affirmative Discrimination, and Ethnic Dilemmas. Andrew M. Greeley (1928—) is professor of sociology at the University of Arizona, a research associate at the National Opinion Research Cen- ter, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and an author of best-selling novels. The most recent of his many sociological works is Religious Indicators, and among his many works of fiction are God Game, The Final Planet, Angel Fire, and Love Song. Joseph Gusfield (1923-) is professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and a former president of the Pacific Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has worked most extensively in the fields of alcohol studies and social move- ments. His first book, Symbolic Crusade, has become a classic. His most Contributors xi recent books are The Culture of Public Problems and (in The Heritage of Sociology series) Kenneth Burke on Symbols and Society. Dean MacCannell (1940—) is professor of applied behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis, and co-editor of The American Jour- nal of Semiotics. He is the author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class and (with Juliet Flower MacCannell) The Time of the Sign. Gary T. Marx (1938—) is professor of sociology at MIT in the Depart- ments of Urban Studies and Humanities. Protest and Prejudice was his first book. His most recent is Undercover: Police Surveillance in Amer- ica. In between, he has edited or co-edited several books and writes for a wide variety of scholarly journals and popular media. In 1989 he was named the American Sociological Association's Jensen Lecturer and he kayaked Idaho's River of No Return. He has returned. David Riesman (1909—) is retired from the Henry Ford II professorship of the social sciences at Harvard University. Trained as a lawyer, he became a sociologist at the University of Chicago, where he taught for many years. He is the senior author of The Lonely Crowd and many other books on the sociology of education and on the character and culture of Americans. Barbara Rosenblum (1943—1988) taught at Stanford University and in Vermont College's graduate program. She was the author of Photogra- phers at Work: A Sociology of Photographic Styles. Before her untimely death she was working with a colleague on a book to be called Cancer in Two Voices. Alice S. Rossi (1922—) is Harriet Martineau Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and former president of both the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Soci- ety. Her primary fields of study are family and kinship, sex and gender, and biosocial science. Among her major works are Parenting and Off- spring Development, Gender and the Life Course, Feminists in Politics, and Academic Women on the Move. Guenther Roth (1931—) is professor of sociology at Columbia Univer- sity. He has written The Social Democrats in Imperial Germany and Max Weber's Vision of History (with Wolfgang Schluchter) and is editor and translator (with Klaus Wittich) of the three-volume Economy and xii Contributors Society by Max Weber. He recently contributed a long introduction to a new edition of Marianne Weber's biography of Max Weber. Pepper Schwartz (1945—) is professor of sociology and adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her writings include American Couples (with Philip Blumstein), Women at Yale (with Janet Lever), Sexual Scripts (with Judith Long Laws), and Gender in intimate Relationships (with Barbara J. Risman). Pierre L. van den Berghe (1933—) is professor of sociology and anthropol- ogy at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work on race, ethnicity, and sociobiology has taken him to Africa and Latin America. Among his many books are South Africa: A Study in Conflict, Age and Sex in Human Societies, Human Family Systems, and The Ethnic Phenomenon. Dennis Wrong (1923—) is professor of sociology at New York Univer- sity. He writes regularly for many general intellectual magazines and is the author of Population and Society, Skeptical Sociology, and Power: Its Forms, Bases, and Uses. .