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State University. He is the President of the Society of Professional Sociologists (Russia).
Dr. Pokrovsky served as a member of the Program Committee of ISA (1998–2002) and the ISA
Executive Committee (2006–2010). Currently, he is conducting a longitudinal interdisciplinary
research on ‘Cellular Globalization and Focal Economy of Rural Communities in the North of
Russia’ (2003–). Among his other scholarly interests are history of sociology, theory of glob-
alization, sociology of consumption and tourism, visual sociology, and virtual reality.
Hans Pruijt’s teaching and research focus on information technology, the organization of work,
and social movements. Key publications are Job Design and Technology, Taylorism vs. anti-
Taylorism (London, 1997, Routledge), and ‘Is the institutionalization of urban movements
inevitable? A comparison of the opportunities for sustained squatting in New York City and
Amsterdam’ (in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2003, Vol. 27, 1). He
obtained a MSc in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from Erasmus
University of Rotterdam. Before working in academia, he was employed by the Royal Dutch
Academy of Sciences as a scientific programmer.

Bali Ram is a Senior Research Advisor, Demography Division, Statistics Canada and Adjunct
Research Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada. He obtained his MA in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario in 1971 and
PhD in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 1975. He is current President of ISA
Research Committee on Sociology of Population (RC41). He was President of the Federation
of Canadian Demographers during 1999–2002. Most of his research has been in the various
sub-fields of demography. His publications include a monograph, New Trends in the Family
published by Statistics Canada, Ottawa (1990).

Shefali S. Ram is a Research Associate (Epidemiology), Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa,
Canada. Formerly, she was a Research Associate with the Cancer Research Institute, Queen’s
University, Kingston, Canada. She obtained her MSc in Community Health and Epidemiology
from Queen’s University in 2005. She has published articles primarily in the area of transfu-
sion medicine.
Elisa P. Reis is the Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
and Chair of the Research Network for the Study of Inequality (NIED). She is also a fellow of
the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
(TWAS). Her work concentrates mostly on sociological theory and on political sociology. She
is currently doing research on the changing patterns of interaction between state, market, and
civil society. Her recent publications also focus on elite perceptions of poverty and inequality.

Elianne Riska is the Professor of Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Science,
University of Helsinki, Finland. She was Chair of the Research Committee on Sociology of
Health (RC 15), ISA, during 2002–2006. She has written on women physicians and gender and
health. Her most recent book is Masculinity and Men’s Health: Coronary Heart Disease in
Medical and Public Discourse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

Juan Sáez is a full Professor of Social Education at the University of Murcia, Spain. One of
the leaders in the process of shaping social education as an independent academic and profes-
sional field in Spain, his research and publications cover a wide range of topics including health
education, adult education, older adult education, and theory of professions. During the last couple
of decades he has concentrated on much of his efforts in revisiting theories of professions and