RCPS Sociology Methods Clinics 2021 NEW*** The RCPS Methods Clinic is a monthly workshop on various social science methods-related topics. Clinics are open to faculty and graduate students who have experience with the method identified, are currently practicing it, or are considering it. Depending on the topic and facilitator, the workshop may cover a brief […]
Join us via zoom November 24, 1-2:30 p.m. Please register via Mach Form by November 20. Dr. Ishrat Sultana: - Ethnographic Praxis: Reflections on ethics, boundaries, and social change in research with Rohingyas Methodological issues and challenges around maintaining ethics, ensuring credibility of research, drawing boundaries to balance between subjectivity and objectivity have always been […]
Join us via Zoom, November 12, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Register via Mach Form by November 10. The Resource Centre for Public Sociology (RCPS) in the Department of Sociology at York invites you to a virtual conversation with Professor Claire Jean Kim. Co-sponsored by the Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) at the York Centre for […]
Jane Finch Social Innovation Hub at the RCPS The Hub has gone virtual and is open to supporting students year round. Please reach out to our Hub Coordinator, Khadar Hilowle, if you have any questions or would like to sign up for the workshops. Stay tuned for the following upcoming workshop series coming out of […]
Join us via Zoom, October 22, 2020 11:30 – 1:00 pm The Jane Finch Community Research Partnership (JFCRP) was created in 2016 as a result of ongoing engagement between members of the Jane Finch community and York University faculty and librarians. Our goal is to address the historical relationships that have existed and continue to […]
Recent and on-going events challenge taken-for-granted beliefs that we have achieved universal civil rights and racial equity, particularly for Black and Indigenous peoples across Canada. This country's official discourse as a multicultural nation belies the entrenched systemic and institutionalized Eurocentric ideology that persists in education, the justice system, labour markets and the economy, health care, […]
As the Department of Sociology, we stand in solidarity with all Black, Indigenous and racialized communities across North America who are protesting in response to police brutality and racial state violence. The brutal killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and others have caused tremendous pain, grief and public outrage among many communities […]
September 23, 2020 11:30 - 1:30 Talk by Dr. Sylvia Grills: Does everyone want to be an anti-racism ally? Solidarity and public sociology Watch on Youtube YorkU Sociology - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCauiLsziDOLtUTdWPt2qwKA/featured?view_as=subscriber
With a new mandate and structure, Sociology’s Resource Centre has a new name, a new vision, and a bit of a facelift. The new RCPS moniker replaces the Qualitative Research Resource Centre (QRRC), which opened in the 1970s. The official launch of this re-branded Resource Centre for Public Sociology, originally scheduled for 23 March 2020, […]
The Jane Finch Hub is housed at the RCPS. For more information please see New Social Innovation Hub gives Jane and Finch students a space to call their own - yFile.