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Beth B. Hess is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the County College of Morris where she has taught introductory courses for a number of years. A graduate of Radcliffe and Rutgers University, she joined the team assembled by Matilda White Riley to produce three volumes of Aging and Society (Russell Sage, 1968, 1970, 1972). She has published extensively in the area of social gerontology, including five editions of Growing Old in America (edited with Elizabeth W. Markson) and in introductory sociology with five editions of Sociology with Peter Stein and Elizabeth Markson. Beth Hess has devoted considerable time and energy to professional organizations, serving as the Secretary of the American Sociological Association and as President of Eastern Sociological Society, The Association of Humanist Sociology, Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Honors include awards for teaching, mentorship, and career achievements, most recently the 2000 Lee Founders award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Peter J. Stein is Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University. He received his B.A. at the City College of New York and his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. Stein has taught a number of undergraduate and graduate courses including Introduction to Sociology, Marriage and the Family, Gender in Contemporary Society, Contemporary Issues in the Workplace, and Sociology of Genocide and the Holocaust. His published articles focus on work and family issues, single adults, and diversity in the workplace. His books include: Single; Single Life; Unmarried Adults in Social Context; The Family; Functions, Conflicts, and Symbols (with Judith Richman and Natalie Hannon); and The Marriage Game: Understanding Marital Decision Making (with Cathy Greenblat and Norman Washburne), and five editions of Sociology, with Beth Hess and Elizabeth Markson. He has been active in professional organizations and has served as vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society; chair of the Family Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; and as Council member of the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association. He served as the chair of ASA's Committee on Teaching. Currently he is involved in diversity training programs for several organizations.
Susan A. Farrell is Associate Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the sociology area in the Behavioral Sciences and Human Services Department at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. She received her B.A. from Queens College, her M.A. in Religious Studies from St. John's University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York. Susan Farrell teaches Introductory Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of the Family, and Human Service Organizations. Farrell served as Managing Editor of Gender & Society and was Chair of the SWS publications committee. With Judith Lorber, Susan Farrell edited The Social Construction of Gender, which includes her research on women in the Roman Catholic Church. She coedited The Power of Gender in Religion with Georgie Ann Weatherby and is the coauthor of Family Sociology: Integrating Macro and Micro Systems Across the Life Cycle with Marvin I. Shapiro. Other articles and chapters in books cover feminist methodology in the social sciences, the social construction of feminist ethics, and the development of Women-Church in Roman Catholicism. Farrell currently serves on the executive committee for the Eastern Sociological Society.
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