Qualitative Sociology Review
2011
Volume VII Issue 2


Contributors

Robert Prus is a Sociologist at the University of Waterloo, Canada. A symbolic interactionist and ethnographer, Robert Prus has been examining the conceptual and methodological connections of American pragmatist philosophy and its sociological offshoot, symbolic interactionism, with Classical Greek and Latin scholarship.

Contact: prus007@gmail.com

James Sutton is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico. He has teaching and research interests in several areas of sociology, including criminology, deviance, gender, and the sociology of sport. His current research projects include an examination of political crime and a study of inmate-on-inmate sexual assault.

Contact: jesutton@csuchico.edu

Chris Hardnack is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His areas of interest are social movements, political sociology, social theory, and political economy. He is currently examining the anti-globalization, anti-war, and immigrant rights movements as an anti-neoliberal protest wave in the United States. In addition, he is working on a synthesis of neo-Marxist class analysis and identity theory. He also completed a Master's degree in sociological practice at California State University, San Marcos, where his research focused on the impact of identity construction and salience on social movement participation.

Contact: hardnack@uoregon.edu

Jakub Isański works at the Institute of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland; main areas of research: sociological aspects of travel and tourism, mobile media and social networks, social capital

Contact: isan@amu.edu.pl

Mateusz Leszkowicz is a PhD student at the Faculty of Educational Studies at the University of A. Mickiewicz. As part of his doctoral dissertation he conducts research on visual behaviour of teenagers during their interactions with media. During the data collection he uses a method of eye tracking.

Contact: mateusz.leszkowicz@amu.edu.pl

Lina Hoel Felde conducts research at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include people’s identity work (as an analytic vocabulary) within discursive tensions particularly related to medical environments. This interest works in step with a tight focus on methodological issues, for example, methodological discussions of the applicability of certain analytic vocabularies in order to critically discuss empirical, analytic points. This interplay of methodological discussions and empirical points reveals in her PhD dissertation within medical sociology called “Identity Work among People with Elevated Cholesterol – The Everyday Elasticity of Compliance with Medical Regimens”, which demonstrates a reflexive critique of the medical concept of compliance. She is trained as a Sociologist and MD.

Contact: lfelde@health.sdu.dk