Sociology: WITH Second Thoughts, 5r.ed

Janet M. Ruane (PhD, Rutgers University) is a Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She has served as her department's Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising and as the Advisor of the Graduate Program in Applied Sociology. Professor Ruane's research interests include formal and informal social control mechanisms, domestic violence, media and technology, research methods and applied sociology. She is the author of Essentials of Research Methods (Blackwell) and has contributed articles to several journals, including Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Law and Policy, Communication Research, Sociological Focus, Journal of Applied Sociology, Science as Culture, Simulation and Games, and Virginia Review of Sociology. Over the years, Professor Ruane has over twenty years of classroom experience, teaching both introductory and advance-level sociology courses as well as graduate courses in applied sociology. David Newman earned his bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 1981 and his graduate degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle (M.A. 1984, PhD 1988). After a year at the University of Connecticut, David came to DePauw in the fall of 1989 and has been here ever since. David teaches courses in Deviance, Mental Illness, Family, Social Psychology, and Research Methods. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented several research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. Recently most of his scholarly activity has been devoted to writing and revising several books, including Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life (SAGE (c)2010); Identities and Inequalities : Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (McGraw-Hill A(c)2006); and Families: A Sociological Perspective (McGraw-Hill A(c)2009). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that examines the cultural meaning, institutional importance, and everyday experience of "second chances."