this award and benefited from an extraordinary workshop on learning and teaching. Since then, more than two dozen other SAGE authors have supported this program from textbook royalties, and hundreds of young scholars have been beneficiaries. We are pleased to have had a hand in initiating and continuing to support this program.
We hope you find this book engaging. If you have questions or comments, please contact us.
Jeanne H. Ballantine
Wright State University
Keith A. Roberts
William Paterson University
Acknowledgments
Knowledge is improved through careful, systematic, and constructive criticism. The same is true of all writing. This book is of much greater quality because we had such outstanding critics and reviewers. We, therefore, wish to honor and recognize the outstanding scholars who served in this capacity. These scholars are listed on this page and the next.
People also served in a variety of other capacities, including as authors of our Sociologists in Action pieces and some of our Sociology in Our Social World boxes. David Yamane drafted early versions of the discussion of denominationalism and church polity in the religion chapter. Sandra Enos revised and updated the Contributing to Our Social World: What Can We Do? feature.
All three of us are experienced authors, and we have worked with some excellent people at other publishing houses. However, the team at SAGE Publications was truly exceptional in support, thoroughness, and commitment to this project. Our planning meetings were fun, intelligent, and provocative. Jeff Lasser provided wonderful support as the SAGE sociology publisher. Folks who have meant so much to the quality production of this book include Liza Neustaetter, content development manager, Laureen Gleason, production editor, Mark Bast, copy editor, Tiara Beatty, editorial assistant, Sheri Gilbert, permissions editor, and Kara Kindstrom, senior marketing manager. We have become friends and colleagues with the staff at SAGE Publications. They are all greatly appreciated.
Thanks to the following reviewers:
Sabrina Alimahomed, University of California, Riverside
George Ansalone, Florida Gulf Coast University
Richard Ball, Ferris State University
Fred Beck, Illinois State University
Jessica Bishop-Royse, DePaul University
Charles Bittner, Texas Woman’s University
Stacye Blount, Fayetteville State College
Christopher Bradley, Troy University, Division of Social Sciences
David L. Briscoe, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
W. Trevor Brooks, Austin Peay State University
James A. Crone, Hanover College
April Cubbage, Saddleback College
David R. Dickens, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jamie M. Dolan, Carroll College (MT)
Amy Donley, University of Central Florida
Kevin Doran, Indiana University, Bloomington
Obi N. I. Ebbe, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Maureen Ellis-Davis, Bergen Community College
Sandra Enos, Bryant University
Lance Erickson, Brigham Young University
Jo Ry-Anne Feller, Palm Beach State College
Stephanie Funk, Hanover College
Loyd R. Ganey Jr., Western International University
Skylar C. Gremillion, Louisiana State University
Mary Grigsby, University of Missouri–Columbia
Chris Hausmann, University of Notre Dame
Todd A. Hechtman, Eastern Washington University
Robert B. Jenkot, Costal Carolina University
Kristina Jensen, Boise State University
Keith Kerr, Blinn College
Lisa L. Kuecker, Western New Mexico University
Leslie C. Lamb, State University of New York, Empire State College Center for Distance Learning
Naomi Latini, Troy University
Elaine Leeder, Sonoma State University
Jason J. Leiker, Utah State University
Stephen Lilley, Sacred Heart University
David A. Lopez, California State University, Northridge
Crystal V. Lupo, Auburn University
Akbar Madhi, Ohio Wesleyan University
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College
Laura McCloud, Ohio State University
Meeta Mehrotra, Roanoke College
Melinda S. Miceli, University of Hartford
Leah A. Moore, University of Central Florida
Nirmal Niroula, Coastal Carolina University
Boniface Noyongoyo, University of Central Florida
Katy Pinto, California State University at Dominguez Hills
R. Marlene Powell, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Suzanne Prescott, Central New Mexico Community College
Antonia Randolph, University of Delaware
Olga Rowe, Oregon State University
Paulina Ruf, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Sarah Samblanet, Kent State University
Martha L. Shockey-Eckles, Saint Louis University
Toni Sims, University of Louisiana–Lafayette
