Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of
Sociology at Yale University, where he is co-director of the Center
for Cultural Sociology. Among his many influential books is The
Civic Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is also co-editor
of the Yale Cultural Sociology Series (Paradigm Publishers).
Kenneth Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Open
University, has held positions at Yale, UCLA, Rutgers, and Smith.
He is the author of Moral Panics (Routledge, 1998).
Laura Desfor Edles received her doctorate in Sociology from UCLA.
Dr. Edles has published articles on race and ethnicity in cultural
sociology, and is the co-author (with Scott Appelrouth) of
Sociological Theory in the Classical Era. She teaches sociology at
California State University, Northridge.
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