How did you get into sociology? When I entered college in the early 1960s, I was leaning toward becoming a lawyer. At the time, a general liberal arts education sufficed…

How did you get into sociology? At first, I majored in comparative linguistics with a minor in social sciences but quickly realized that I was much more into social sciences…

How did you get into Sociology? When I started as a student in the 1960s, I majored in History and Psychology. By the time I finished the BA, however, I…

How did you get into Sociology? Like a lot of other sociologists, accidentally. Few people grow up wanting to be sociologists. In my case, I came out of three years…

How did you get into Sociology? I received my bachelor’s degree in social statistics and demography. My original intention was to study historical demography, or history in general - at…

How did you get into Sociology? For a better understanding of the following, it is important to know that I was born, went to school and graduated in East Germany…

How did you get into Sociology? When I went to Harvard University in 1959-63, I found all sorts of courses that did not exist in secondary school: philosophy, psychology, anthropology,…

How did you get into Sociology? I grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp haunted by a duality: oppressive Israeli colonial practices and authoritarianism in Syria. I had first enrolled in Damascus University studying…

How did you get into Sociology? My pathway to sociology was serendipitous, the result of a summer internship in Alpena, Michigan between my junior and senior year.  Until that pivotal experience,…

How did you get into Sociology? I took my first sociology class when I was an undergraduate at the liberal arts college in Kyoto, Japan. In this class, the concept…