John Scott - Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists

Paul Atkinson is distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University and Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen). His latest book is Everyday Arias (AltaMira, 2006), an ethnography of the Welsh National Opera Company.

Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, having previously researched at Birkbeck College and the University of London, and taught at the University of Birmingham in the cultural studies department. He has published widely on racism and urban culture and is co-editor of The Auditory Cultures Reader (with Michael Bull, Berg Publishers, 2003), Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture (with Vron Ware, University of Chicago Press, 2002), and co-author of The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game (with T. Crabbe and John Solomos, Berg Publishers, 2001).

Peter Baehr is Professor and head of the Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His publications include The Portable Hannah Arendt (editor, Penguin, 2000), Founders, Classics, Canons (Transaction, 2002) and Dictatorship in History and Theory (co-edited with Melvin Richter, Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Patrick Baert is University Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. He studied at the Universities of Brussels and Oxford and has been teaching at Cambridge since 1992. His recent publications include Social Theory in the Twentieth Century (Polity Press, 1998) and Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (Polity Press, 2005).

Janet Borgerson is Lecturer in the University of Exeter School of Business and Economics. She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and completed postdoctoral work in existential phenomenology at Brown University. Her research has appeared in European Journal of Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, Consumption Markets & Culture, International Marketing Review, Culture and Organisation, Journal of Knowledge Management, Organisation Studies, Gender Work & Organisation, Feminist Theory, Radical Philosophy Review and Journal of Philosophical Research.

Joan Busfield is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She trained initially as a clinical psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic. Her research has focused on psychiatry and mental disorder, and her main publications include Managing Madness: Changing Ideas and Practice (Hutchinson, 1986), Men, Women and Madness (Macmillan, 1996) and Health and Health Care in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000). She is the editor of Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health (Blackwell, 2001).

Eamonn Carrabine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His teaching and research interests lie in the fields of criminology and cultural studies. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (with Pamela Cox, Maggy Lee and Nigel South, Oxford University Press, 2002), Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (with Paul Iganski, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer and Nigel South, Routledge, 2004) and Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (Ashgate, 2004). He is currently working on a book on Crime and the Media: Interrogating Representations of Transgression in Popular Culture.

James J. Chriss is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University. His main areas of interest are sociological theory, crime and delinquency, the sociology of police and medical sociology. His forthcoming book Social Control: History and Current Controversies will be published by Polity Press.

Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, having previously taught in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield. His recent publications include Inter-subjectivity: The Fabric of Social Becoming (Sage, 1996), The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire (Sage, 2001),