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D. Stanley Eitzen is Professor Emeritus of Sociology from Colorado State University. He has an A.B. in history from Bethel College, an M.S. in social science from Emporia State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Kansas. He is the author or editor of fifteen books. These books center on various topics such as social control, crime, crimes by the powerful, homelessness, the consequences of economic transformation, social problems in sport, and solutions to social problems. His current book projects are Where the Welfare State Works (with Doug Timmer) and Demythologizing Sport. His analysis focuses on systems of inequality (race/class/gender) within certain institutions: government, family, education and sport. He is former president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, a former editor of The Social Science Journal, and was the recipient of the John N. Stern Distinguished Professorship at Colorado State University. |

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Maxine Baca Zinn is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, where she is also Senior Research Associate at the Julian Samora Research Institute. She earned her doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1978. Dr. Baca Zinn has written extensively on families, race, class, and gender, and on using intersectional analysis to transform the discipline of sociology, its textbooks, and curricula. Her publications include the following co-authored books: Diversity on Families, In Conflict and Order: Understanding Society, and Social Problems (all with D. Stanley Eitzen); and the following co-edited books: Women of Color in U.S. Society (with Barrie Thonton Dill), The Reshaping of America (with D. Stanley Eitzen), and Through the Prism of Difference: A Sex and Gender Reader (with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner). Dr. Baca Zinn has served on the councils of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is a past President of the Western Social Science Association.
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