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ABOUT THE AUTHORS Craig Calhoun is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is alsó Chair of the Curriculum in International Studies and Director of the Program in Social Theory and Cross-Cultural Studies. A preacher's son, Professor Calhoun grew up in several communities in Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana; learning about each new home was his first training in sociology. After studying at the University of Southern California and Columbia University, he won a scholarship to England and received his doctorate from Oxford University. He has taught in Chapel Hill since 1977. Professor Calhoun is the author of The Question of Class Struggle: The Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism in the Industrial Revolution (Chicago, 1982) and Beijing Spring: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, forthcoming). He is alsó the editor of such books as Structures of Power and Constraint (with W. R. Scott and M. W. Meyer, Cambridge, 1990), Habermas and the Public Sphere (M.I.T. Press, 1992), Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives (with M. Postone and L. LiPuma, Chicago, 1993), and Social Theory and the Politics of Identity (Blackwells, 1993). Professor Calhoun is currently engaged in comparative historical research on nationalism and movements for democracy. Teaching is a central part of Professor Calhoun's work. In addition to teaching a rangé of sociology classes, he was the founding professor in UNITAS, an experiment in multicultural living and learning at UNC. In 1988, UNC undergraduates elected him to their honor society, the Order of the Golden Fleece. Donald Light is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and Professor of Social and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Professor Light went to college at Stanford and completed his graduate work in sociology at the University of Chicago and Brandeis University. Along the way, he helped to implement President Kennedy's Equal Employment Opportunity Program for minority workers and became increasingly interested in the field of education and health. He is now conducting research on the sociological changes taking place in the American health-care system. Professor Light's first appointment was to the faculty of Princeton University, where he taught the introductory course in sociology as weil as courses in education, deviance, and professions. It was there he met and became friends with Suzanne Keller and subsequently developed the first edition of this text. He has published a wellknown study of medical training entitled Becoming Psychiatrists: The Professional Transformation of Self (Norton, 1980). His latest book, Political Values and Health Care, is published by M.I.T. Press. He is the author of numerous articles, which have appeared in The American Journal of Sociology, The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, The Administrative Science Quarterly, Daedalus, and The New England Journal of Medicine. Suzanne Keller is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where she has served as Chairperson of the Department of Sociology. She was born in Vienna, came to the United States as a child, but has spent a good part of her professional life in Europe. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University in 1953. In 1957, she became an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University, where she taught courses in social theory, stratification, and the sociology of religion. A Fulbright Lectureship in 1963 at the Doxiadis Center of Ekistics in Athens marked the beginning of her interest in architecture and community planning. At the completion of her Fulbright in 1965, Professor Keller joined the Center, where she remained until 1967. That year she came to Princeton University as a Visiting Professor, and in 1968 she was the first woman to be appointed to a tenured Professorship there. She has held several elective offices in the American Sociological Association, including that of Vice-President, and most recently as President of the Eastem Sociological Society.