Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś (1973), professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland. She has published articles on maritime professions (e.g. in European Societies) and introduced Research Stream in Maritime Sociology to European Sociological Association conferences.Frank Sowa, Ph.D. (1974), professor at University of Applied Sciences Georg Simon Ohm, Germany. He has worked on maritime issues, e.g. identity politics of the Greenlandic Inuit and whaling culture in Japan. He organized several research streams and sessions in Maritime Sociology.Marie C. Grasmeier (1979) studied nautical science, social anthropology and gender studies in Bremen, Germany. She wrote her PhD-thesis on the occupational culture and occupational identities of seafarers in the global merchant fleet. She currently works in the civilian maritime search-and-rescue fleet as a nautical expert and teaches ethnographic methods at the University of Bremen.

• List of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social ResearchMarie C. Grasmeier, Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas and Frank SowaPart 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial SociologyShaun Ruggunan2 “Making a Ship”: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore ProductionCamilla Mevik3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global SeafarersMarie C. Grasmeier and Linda BeckPart 2: Gender Issues4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions of Maritime Adult EducationIwona Królikowska and Astrid Meczkowska-Christiansen5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation of a Coastal Lagoon System: “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”Nuria Jimenez Garcia6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec: Structure, Origins and Development of a “Typically Male” SectorMarco AlberioPart 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping LinesBirgit Pauksztat8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction in the Explanation of Seafarers’ Well-beingAna Sliškovic9 A Study on the Sense of Relative Deprivation of Elderly Fishers from the Perspective of Ocean Sociology: The Example of Island S and G in Zhoushan City, ChinaWen Zhang and Ya Wen10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness IssuesRoland Dobrzeniecki-LukasiewiczIndex