Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, USA. His interests revolve around subcultures, music, and social movements, and his research focuses on how people engage in social change via lifestyle movements. He is the author of Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change (2006), and Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls: Deviance and Youth Subcultures (2012). He has published in a variety of journals, including Social Movement Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and Cultural Sociology, and has appeared in documentaries about straight edge and incels.