ABSTRACT
James N. Baron (coeditor; coauthor, "Social Differentiation and Inequality") is the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources and associate dean for academic affairs at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. After graduating from Reed College in 1976, he received an M.S. in 1977 from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of CalifomiaSanta Barbara, both in sociology. His experiences and perceptions as a sociology major at Reed were quite similar to those chronicled in Paul Siegel's essay in this volume. (Unlike Siegel, Baron correctly answered the final exam question about the one-eyed man being king in the country of the blind. However, Pock's first handwritten comment on that same exam, scrawled in red ink in the margin, was "cut off the words and get to the point," advice that some might say still rings true nearly twenty five years later.) Baron's current research interests include economic sociology, gender and ethnic inequality in organizations, social networks in the workplace, and the creation and evolution of employment systems in high-technology companies.
