Sociology: Your Compass for a New World, The Brief Edition (with InfoTrac)

John Lie was born in South Korea, grew up in Japan and Hawaii, and attended Harvard University. Currently Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, he has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard University in the United States, as well as universities in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and New Zealand. His main research interests are comparative macrosociology and comparative race and ethnic relations. Lie's major publications include Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1998); and Multiethnic Japan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).John Lie is the author of 'Sociology: Your Compass for a New World, The Brief Edition (with InfoTrac)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780534643508 and ISBN 0534643507.