JEROME BRAUN, an interdisciplinary scholar, is interested in, among
other things, sociology, social psychiatry, culture and personality, and
what may be called alienation in modern society, or the effects of living
anonymous lives in a bureaucratized society. He has studied these phe-
nomena theoretically and by using such concrete perspectives as law and
psychiatry. He is the editor of Psychological Aspects of Modernity
( Praeger, 1993) and author of The Humanized Workplace: A Psychologi-
cal, Historical and Practical Perspective ( Praeger, 1995).

MATHEW KANJIRATHINKAL is assistant professor of sociology and
chairperson of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal
Justice at East Texas State University. His research interests are in critical
theory, modernity, and postmodernism. His previous works include A
Sociological Critique of Theories of Cognitive Development, Communi-
cation and the Foundations of the Social Sciences: Contributions of
Pierce, Apel and Habermas, and he is coeditor, with Fabio Dasilva, of
Politics at the End of History: Essays in Postmodernist Thought. He
contributed to Psychological Aspects of Modernity, edited by Jerome Braun
.

GEORGE J. McCALL teaches sociology at the University of Missouri,
St. Louis. He was formerly editor of The Sociological Quarterly. Among
his publications is one with Jerry Simmons entitled Identities and Inter-
actions: An Examination of Human Associations in Everyday Life. He also

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