3 Questions for Raewyn Connell
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…
3 Questions for Gil Eyal
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…
3 Questions for Fabrizio Bernardi
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…
3 Questions for Heike Solga
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…
3 Questions for Randall Collins
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,…
3 Questions for Sari Hanafi
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…
3 Questions for Marta Tienda
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,…
3 Questions for Sawako Shirahase
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…
3 Questions for Martin Kohli
How did you get into sociology? Sociology was the most innovative field for those interested in society, and more generally, in the life of the mind – the antithesis to…