Gusfield, Joseph

Joseph Gusfield is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and taught there, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, at the University of Illinois before going to UCSD. Among his major works are Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement, and The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order. He has also taught and conducted research in India and Japan.