Langman, Lauren

Lauren Langman is Professor of Sociology at Loyola University at Chicago. He is currently president of RC36, Alienation Theory of ISA, former chair of Section on Marxist sociology, ASA, on governing board of Global Studies Association, and serves on boards of "Social Theory, Current Perspective in Social Theorys" and "Critical Sociology." He teaches courses in social theory and consumption, and has written extensively on globalization, alienation, and subcultures of transgression. He has long been professionally active in concerns with consumer society; his often-cited 1992 paper Neon Cages on...