Qualitative Sociology Review
2011
Volume VII Issue 3


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

Jan K. Coetzee is a Senior Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He specializes in qualitative methodology – particularly in biographical research. He also works in the field of alternative theoretical approaches to the sociology of developing societies. He coordinates a research program on the narrative study of lives.

Contact: CoetzeeJK@ufs.ac.za

Muhammed Asadi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. For his dissertation he is extending C. Wright Mills' Power Elite explanation internationally, linking the economy, military and the state in explaining development and stratification outcomes of nation states, as a revision of Wallerstein's World Systems Analysis.

Contact: muhammedaasadi@gmail.com

Dimitri Mortelmans is an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is the head of the Research Center for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (CELLO). His principal research interests lie in the is sociology of family and labour. His main research topics cover divorce, work-life balance and career patterns.

Contact: dimitri.mortelmans@ua.ac.be

Wendy Verheyen is a Research Assistant in the Research Center for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (CELLO) at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). She works on gender issues and divorce.

Contact: Wendy.verheyen@ua.ac.be