Prof. Hyun Ok Park's "The Capitalist Unconscious" wins honorable mention

  Professor Hyun Ok Park's book, The Capitalist Unconscious, wins honorable mention in the 2017 James B. Palais for Korean Studies Book Prize Competition of the Association for Asian Studies. About The Capitalist Unconscious... The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this […]

Improve your critical thinking skills

  Professor Robert Kenedy leads the Critical Thinking Series at McLaughlin College from January to March. Workshops include Academic Critical Thinking, Critical Thinking and Writing, and Critical Thinking and Test-taking Strategies. [Poster]    

Dr Suzanne Cook screens "Redirection: Movers, Shakers, and Shifters"

  What does later life look like for you? It's never too late for change... Adjunct Sociology Professor Suzanne Cook takes up this question in Redirection: Movers, Shakers, and Shifters, a documentary film about later life transitions into second and third careers. Join us for a film screening on 22 November 2016 @2:15pm followed by […]

Students find Sociology course "life changing"

From YFile, 1 November 2016 [see full article here]: "In his final semester of studies, [Vincenzo] Divito enrolled in an undergraduate sociology course taught by Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Professor Peter Dawson – acourse that left such an impression on him that he wrote to York’s administration. “I really wish I knew […]

Academic Opportunities: Appointment in Social Research Methods

  The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Social Research Methods, preferably with a focus on quantitative methods. Deadline November 15, 2016. [See the full posting here]

Prof. Deborah Davidson connects with wider audiences as part of the Tattoo Project

Sociology Professor Deborah Davidson could be seen at two events in the community this past summer. In June 2016, Dr. Deborah Davidson and Mandi Gray hosted a participatory photo gallery of tattoos commemorating sexual assault titled, My Resistance is Etched Into My Skin: Sexual Assault and Tattoos. Attending guests had the opportunity to add their […]

"Do you need to see it to believe it?" Prof. Fuyuki Kurasawa on visual proof

Sociology Professor, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Research Chair in Global Digital Citizenship, discusses the issue of public engagement with videos as evidence. Appearing as a guest on CBC's Ontario Today on August 23, 2016, along with Kevin Donovan, from The Star, here is the podcast recording of the full episode: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ontariotoday_20160823_41755.mp3 Read more of Dr. Kurasawa's media […]

Courses Extended to Non-Sociology Students (FW16/17)

                               FW 16/17 Course Announcement:  Courses open to NON-SOCI majors Introduction to Sociology (SOCI 1010): The following course is open to SOCI majors in Study Level 01 or 02 or 03 or 04 including limited spaces for NON-SOCI students in Study Level 01 or 02 (*excluding BHRM students). FW16/17 AP/SOCI 1010 6.0 sections A, B, […]

Elizabeth Nam is remembered by family, friends, and colleagues

With sadness we share the news of the passing of Elizabeth Nam on June 1. She was an administrative secretary in the Department of Sociology from 2011 to 2014. She will be dearly missed. Our deepest condolences to her family and friends. [Read more.]

The celebrated work of Senior Scholar, Professor Alan Blum

New book celebrates the work of Professors Alan Blum and Peter McHugh From Yfile posted 8 June 2016. The Reflexive Initiative: On the Grounds and Prospects of Analytic Theorizing (Routledge, 2016) is a new book edited by Stanley Raffel and Barry Sandywell as part of the Routledge Advances in Sociology Series. The essays collected in […]