Prof. Mark Gottdiener

Mark Gottdiener is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at State University of New York at Buffalo. An internationally regarded scholar, he writes on social theory, political economy, cultural studies, and semiotics. Among his best-known books are "The Theming of America" (1997), "Postmodern Semiotics" (Blackwell, 1994), "The New Urban Sociology" (1994), and "The Social Production of Urban Space" (second edition, 1994). Claudia C. Collins is an Associate Professor at the University...See more

Mark Gottdiener is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at State University of New York at Buffalo. An internationally regarded scholar, he writes on social theory, political economy, cultural studies, and semiotics. Among his best-known books are "The Theming of America" (1997), "Postmodern Semiotics" (Blackwell, 1994), "The New Urban Sociology" (1994), and "The Social Production of Urban Space" (second edition, 1994). Claudia C. Collins is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. She worked as an award-winning television journalist in New York and Las Vegas and is presently doing research in the area of health and aging, and population studies. David R. Dickens in Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His primary areas of interest are continental social theory and contemporary mass culture. See less