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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-41855-4 (pbk)
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Burgess, Robert G.
Developments in sociology / Robert G. Burgess and Anne Murcott.
p. cm. (Longman sociology series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-582-41855-0
1. Sociology. I. Murcott, Anne. II. Title. III. Series.
HM585 .B87 2001
301dc21
00045641
Typeset in Stone Serif 9/13.5 pt by 35
Sara Arber is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Surrey. She is President of the British Sociological Association (19992001) and was previously Honorary Treasurer of the BSA (198890). She has written on survey methodology, and is co-author of Doing Secondary Analysis (Allen and Unwin 1988). Her research focuses mainly on gender and ageing, and inequalities in womens health. Publications include Gender and Later Life (Sage 1991 with Jay Ginn), Ageing, Independence and the Life Course (Jessica Kingsley 1993 with Maria Evandrou), Connecting Gender and Ageing (Open University Press 1995 with Jay Ginn), and The Myth of Generational Conflict (Routledge 2000 with Claudine Attias-Donfut).
James A. Beckford is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He was President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion in 19889, a Vice-President of the International Sociological Association from 1994 to 1998, and is currently President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. His main publications include Religious Organization (Mouton 1973), The Trumpet of Prophecy. A Sociological Analysis of Jehovahs Witnesses (Blackwell 1975), Cult Controversies. The Societal Response to New Religious Movements (Tavistock 1985), Religion and Advanced Industrial Society (Unwin-Hyman 1989) and (with Sophie Gilliat) Religion in Prison. Equal Rites in a Multi-Faith Society? (Cambridge 1998). He is the editor of New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change (Sage 1986), and co-editor of The Changing Face of Religion (Sage 1989) and Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism (Oxford 1993). His next book will be on religion and social theory.
Kevin J. Brehony is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Reading where he teaches, among others, an MA course on the sociology of education. He is a former Honorary Treasurer, Executive Committee member and Education Study Group Convenor of the British Sociological Association. He has published numerous articles in the fields of sociologically informed histories of child-centred education and education policy. With Rosemary Deem and Sue Heath he is the author of Active Citizenship and the Governing of Schools (Buckingham, Open University Press 1995) and editor,with Naz Rassool, of Nationalisms Old and New (Houndmills, Macmillan Press 1999). With Rosemary Deem he is currently writing a book for Macmillan entitled Rethinking Sociologies of Education and he is researching the introduction of performance-related pay for teachers.
Richard K. Brown studied history at the University of Cambridge and personnel management at the LSE. After nearly eight years working as research officer and then Lecturer in Sociology in the University of Leicester he was appointed Lecturer in Sociology in the University of Durham in 1966, became Professor of Sociology in 1982, and retired in 1993. His research has focused on the sociology of work and employment, including studies of women hosiery workers, the shipbuilding industry, and local labour markets. He is the author of Understanding Industrial Organisations (Routledge 1992) and editor of The Changing Shape of Work (Macmillan 1997), and he was the founding editor of Work, Employment and Society. Recent research and publications have included studies of the work of sign language interpreters, notably Mary Brennan and Richard Brown, Equality before the Law. Deaf Peoples Access to Justice (DSRU, Durham 1997).
Christopher G.A. Bryant, a graduate of Leicester and Southampton Universities, has been Professor of Sociology at Salford University since 1982 and is now Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences. He has held visiting appointments in Germany, America, the Netherlands and Poland and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Central European University in Warsaw. He researches in social theory and political sociology and is currently writing a book on nations and national identities in Britain. His publications include
