Keith Kerr - David Riesmans Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy

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Edited by
KEITH KERR
Quinnipiac University, USA
B. GARRICK HARDEN
Lamar University, USA
MARCUS ALDREDGE
Iona College, USA

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Riesman, David, 19092002.

[Works. Selections]

David Riesmans unpublished writings and continuing legacy / by Keith Kerr, B. Garrick Harden and Marcus Aldredge.

pages cm. (Classical and contemporary social theory)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Keith Kerr is an associate professor of sociology at Quinnipiac University and is an affiliated professor of sociology at Ningxia University in Yinchuan, China where he lives and works in the summer months. For his work there, he was named a 2014 OYCF Fellow. His areas of research include social and cultural theory, as well as China Studies, with an emphasis on Hui Muslims. He is the author of Postmodern Cowboy: C Wright Mills and a New 21st Century Sociology (Paradigm 2009). His current research, in conjunction with researchers at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, is investigating Chinese social character types.

B. Garrick Harden is an assistant professor of sociology at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas with teaching and research interests in social and cultural theory. He co-edited Co-Opting Culture (Lexington 2009).

Marcus Aldredge is an assistant professor of sociology and an associate researcher for the Center of Social Research at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. His areas of scholarly interest include the sociology of culture, interactionism, and youth and deviance. His research primarily focuses on expressive cultural and artistic practices including recent projects on graffiti in China and collegiate arts programming in higher educational settings. His book Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics was published by Ashgate in 2013.

Jeanne Watson Eisenstadt obtained her BA from Antioch College, 1946, in Sociology and Education. She went on to get an MA from Columbia University (1948, Sociology) and a PhD from the University of Michigan (1953, Social Psychology). She worked at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan (Research Associate) and at the Family Study Center of the University of Chicago (Research Associate, Project Director, Assistant Director of the Family Study Center, Assistant Professor). She published many articles in journals over her career including the Journal of Social Psychology, Human Relations and co-authored The Dynamics of Planned Change published by Harcourt, Brace & Co. in 1958.

Joe Galbo received a PhD in Sociology from York University, Toronto, Canada. He teaches and researches the sociology of intellectuals as well as cultural studies at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John. He has written on David Riesman and Daniel Bell as well as other intellectuals, served for three years as a member of the University of New Brunswick Board of Governors, and has been involved in international student exchange with American, Canadian and Mexican universities.