Joseph R. Gusfield

1923 – 2015

American sociology professor at UC San Diego

• Community
• Contested meanings
• The culture of public problems
• New social movements
• On Symbols and Society
• Performing action
• Protest reform and revolt
• Symbolic crusade
• Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems (Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series)
• Mass Society and Extremist Politics
• On Symbols and Society
• Utopian myths and movements in modern societies