John D. Brewer is President of the British Sociological Association and Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology and former Head of Department (2004-2007) at Aberdeen University, moving from Queen s University Belfast in July 2004. He was Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Queen s between 1993-2002. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University (1989), St John s College Oxford (1992), Corpus Christi College Cambridge (2002) and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2003). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected 1998), an...