Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences

About Bruce BergHoward Lune

Howard Lune is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Graduate Social Research Program at Hunter College CUNY. He specializes in research on organizations and organizational fields with a particular focus on nonprofit organizations. The majority of his research concerns the efforts by relatively marginal groups to organize for greater political social and/or economic power. He has published studies of organizing in response to HIV/AIDS the development of zero tolerance drug policies in the US state-community relations in political policy domains and adolescent violence in public schools. He is presently working on a historical study of the development of the American Irish transnational identity from the founding of the US to the turn of the twentieth century. Bruce L. Berg (1954-2009) received his PhD from Syracuse University in 1983. His first faculty position as Assistant Professor was at Florida State University where he also served as Internship Director. In 1986 he took a position at University of Massachusetts-Boston Harbor campus. Then from 1988 to 1996 he moved up the academic ladder at Indiana University of Pennsylvania achieving tenure and full professor status. He served as chair of many doctoral dissertation committees and thus influenced generations of young scholars. In 1997 he moved to Southern California and took a faculty position at CSULB where he remained until his death in 2009.