This roundtable discussion will feature presenters engaged in community-based educational research. Education and schooling are key areas where society’s rapidly changing technological, social and economic trends are put into practice. Though schools and communities are [...]
Sociologists of knowledge and medicine have challenged the assumption that medical science and medical knowledge are “outside of culture” and free from social structural influences. In this vein, this session seeks papers exploring the interconnections [...]
Significant changes in longevity and fertility as well as improvements in health care and social circumstances over the past half century have resulted in an unprecedented growth in the older adult population. Research that explores [...]
This Roundtable brings together contributors to a current project that focuses on analyzing the racialized, gendered, classed and sexualized dimensions of what constitutes Canada. With a sustained intersectional, interdisciplinary approach that sees inherent contradictions in [...]
Sex selection in favour of boys and mass emigration of young women have led to the so-called army of ‘forced bachelors’, men who remain single due to a demographic deficit of women. Most research to [...]