Gil Richard Musolf is Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University, USA. He has published widely on symbolic interactionism.

• 1. Oppression and Resistance: A Structure-and-Agency Perspective 2. Behind Closed Doors: Organizational Secrecy, Stigma, and Sex Abuse Within the Catholic Church 3. Black Man/White Tower’: A Performative Film Autocritography 4. Transforming Identities of Illness through Aesthetic Narrative Collaboration 5. Power, Emergence, and the Meanings of Resistance: Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Canada 6. Collective and Community Work in Senegal: Resisting Colonial and Neoliberal Models of Economic Development 7. Time to Defy: The Use of Temporal Spaces to Enact Resistance 8. Dupe, Schemer, Mother: Navigating Agency and Constraint at Work 9. They Expect You to be Better”: Mentoring as a Tool of Resistance among Black Fraternity Men 10. Public Sociology and Symbolic Interactionism: A Participatory Research and Writing Culture with a Southern Native-American

Sociologists from North America offer 10 articles that present a structure-and-agency perspective on oppression and resistance to examine various aspects from the personal to the institutional. They address organizational oppression through the case of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church; the portrayal of oppression of African Americans in major films; illness and identity; subscription-based journals in academic publishing vs. open access journals; resisting colonial and neoliberal models of economic development in Senegal; the Inuit of northern Canada’s efforts to resist Western cultural paradigms of time; how nursing assistants deal with the oppressive aspects of status inequality and a degrading workplace culture; mentoring as a tool of resistance among African American men in black Greek fraternities; and the Pee-Dee tribe of South Carolina, which has resisted invisibility and erasure by gaining state recognition as a tribe.