Joseph A. Scimecca is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Society and Freedom: An Introduction to Humanist Sociology, Education and Society and The Sociological Theory of C. Wright Mills, the co-author of Crisis at St. John's: Strike and Revolution on The Catholic Campus, Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology and Sociology: Analysis and Application, and the co-editor of Conflict Resolution: Cross Cultural Perspectives.