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Encyclopedia of Sociology
The definitive sociology reference source
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Contacts

Editor

Dr. George Ritzer
Principal editor with overall responsibility for the Encyclopedia

Editor: Encyclopedia of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
USA
20742
Fax: 301-314-6892
ritzer@socy.umd.edu

Managing Editors

Betsy Thorn
Editorial enquiries in the areas of: Demography / Population; Education; Family; Gender; Latin America; Race / Ethnicity; Social Change; Social Movements and Collective Behavior; Social Stratification; and Sports.
betsy@socy.umd.edu

Michael Ryan
Editorial enquiries in the areas of: Consumption; Crime and Delinquency; Culture; Deviance; Economic Sociology; General Sociology; Groups and Socialization; Health and Medicine; Interaction; Media; Methods; Organizations; Politics; Popular Culture; Religion; Science; Sexuality; Social Problems; Social Psychology; Sociology of East Asia; Sociology of Management; Theory; and Urbanization.
miker@socy.umd.edu

Publishers

Ken Provencher
Contract administration and general editorial inquiries
kprovencher@bos.blackwellpublishing.com

Justin Vaughan
Commissioning Editor for the Sociology list
justin.vaughan@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com

Marketing

Matt Bennett
US marketing queries
mbennett@bos.blackwellpublishing.com

Jennifer Howell
UK and Rest-of-World marketing queries
jennifer.howell@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com

Website Queries

Kieran Thomas
Technical support for this website
Kieran.Thomas@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com

Advisory Editors

Consumption
Dan Cook
dtcook@uiuc.edu

Crime and Delinquency
Ruth Triplett
rtriplet@odu.edu

Culture
Eva Illouz
illouz@mscc.huji.ac.il

Demography/Population
Suzanne Bianchi
sbianchi@socy.umd.edu

Deviance
Erich Goode
egoode2001@comcast.net

Economic Sociology
Milan Zafirovski
zafirovM@scs.cmm.unt.edu

Education
Chandra Muller
cmuller@mail.la.utexas.edu

Family
Graham Allan
g.allan@appsoc.keele.ac.uk

Gender
Nancy Naples
nancy.naples@uconn.edu

Gerontology, Friendship and General Sociology
Rebecca Adams
rebecca_adams@uncg.edu

Health and Medicine
William Cockerham
wcocker@uab.edu

Interaction, Groups and Socialization
David Maines
maines@oakland.edu

Key Concepts in Sociology
Peter Kivisto
sokivisto@augustana.edu

Media
Nick Perry
n.perry@auckland.ac.nz

Methods
Yvonna Lincoln
ysl@neo.tamu.edu

Organizations
Stewart Clegg
stewart.clegg@uts.edu.au

Politics
Peter Beilharz
P.Beilharz@latrobe.edu.au

Popular Culture
Chris Rojek
luminaire2208@hotmail.com

Race/Ethnicity
Rutledge Dennis and John Stone
rdenni1@gmu.edu, jstone2@bu.edu

Religion
Roberto Cipriani
r.cipriani@uniroma3.it

Science
Steve Yearley
sy3@york.ac.uk

Sexuality
Ken Plummer
plumk@essex.ac.uk

Social Change
Edward Tiryakian
durkhm@soc.duke.edu

Social Movement/Collective Behavior
Jeff Goodwin
jeff.goodwin@nyu.edu

Social Problems
Axel Groenemeyer
axel.groenemeyer@uni-bielefeld.de

Social Psychology
Jodi O'Brien
jobrien@seattleu.edu

Social Stratification
Wout Ultee
W.Ultee@maw.kun.nl

Sociology of East Asia
Yoshio Sugimoto
sociology@optusnet.com.au

Sociology of Management
Chris Carter
cc67@st-andrews.ac.uk

Sport
Jay Coakley
jcoakley@uccs.edu

Theory
Barry Markovsky
markovsb@gwm.sc.edu

Urbanization
Kevin Fox Gotham
kgotham@tulane.edu