Gender scholarship and cultural sociology are both deeply concerned with inequality, and address many of the same fundamental issues: the classification of people, objects, and practices, and the creation of symbolic differences; the uneven valuation [...]
The purpose of this session is to examine the influence of mental health trajectories upon employment patterns. Session Organizer: Jason Novick, University of Calgary, jbnovick@ucalgary.ca Session Chair: Dr. Gillian Ranson, University of Calgary Session Code: [...]
Global migration flows have transformed national and local immigration patterns. Over the last decade the number of people with precarious legal status living and working in Canada has grown exponentially. Canada’s authorized temporary migrant population [...]
Public intellectualism is often understood as advancing discovery and transfer of knowledge among scholars and the public. Public intellectualism has become an important area of research and theorizing within sociology and criminology – drawing heavily [...]
This session focuses on exploring the way that health and health epidemics, such as the obesity epidemic and flu epidemics, are constructed, politicized and reinforced by policy makers, media sources, large institutions and other key [...]