is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests are in political sociology, social stratification, the sociology of work, and applied statistics. Among the journals in which his recent research appears are the American Sociological Review, Journal of Politics and Sociological Methodology. He has also just completed his first book, Modern Methods for Robust Regression (Sage, 2008).
is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests are population, family, fertility, and policy. His most recent publication (edited with Don Kerr) is The Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population, Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2007. He has recently been awarded SSHRC grants for “Family and work: models of earning and caring” (with Zenaida Ravanera) and a Strategic Knowledge Cluster “Population change and lifecourse” (with several others). The latter is a seven year grant.
is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. A political sociologist studying politics and public policy from a comparative and historical perspective, he has published four books and three dozen articles in journals like Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Social Policy, and Sociological Theory. You can learn more about his work at www.danielbeland.org/
is a professor of sociology at Eastern Illinois University. His teaching and research areas are sociology of work & occupations, social organizations, and social statistics. His recent works include: "The relationship between work value and job rewards...," International Review of Modern Sociology (2005, Vol. 31, # 2); and "Racial differences on organizational attachment," Journal of Black Studies (2004, Vol. 34, No. 5).
received a doctorate in sociology from the University of Muenster, Germany. He has taught sociology at the Universities of M¸nster and Duisburg-Essen where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He has worked as a publisher and marketing director for Bertelsmann and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. In his scientific work, he focuses on the application of interpretive sociological theories to social research as well as the analysis of social inequalities and is the author/editor of 8 books and 20 articles in sociological journals.
received a doctorate in economics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and a PhD in sociology from Fordham University, New York. He has taught sociology at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and the University of Vienna, Austria. After his Assistant Professorship at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, he took over the chair in sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in 1978. Moreover, he heads VERBAL, a private firm devoted to writing biographies for corporations and public personalities. In his scientific work, he focuses on the paradigmatic structure of sociological theories as well as the analysis of social change and social inequality and is the author/editor of more than 20 books and 100 articles in sociological journals.