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2 Minutes, 3 Questions with Prof. Christopher Kyriakides
Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Research in Race and Racialization discusses language change from “economic migrant” to “refugee” in light of European culture where newcomers are viewed as existential threats.
Marcello Musto on the rise of the radical left in Europe
Sociology professor Marcello Musto on the rise of the radical left in Europe.
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Muyang Li
Refereed Article
Yang, Q., Luo, Z., Li, M., & Liu, J. (2021). Understanding the landscape and propagation of COVID-19 misinformation and its correction on Sina Weibo. Global Health Promotion.
Glenn J. Stalker
Refereed Article
Stalker, G. J., & Wood, L. J. (2021). (Dis)Assembling global-justice identities. Poetics, 85, Article 101500.
Philip D. Walsh
Refereed Article
Walsh, P. (2021). Emotions, personhood and social ontology: A critical realist approach. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 51(2), 371–390.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Makridis, C. A., & Wu, C. (2021). How social capital helps communities weather the COVID-19 pandemic. PloS One, 16(1), Article e0245135.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Mewes, J., Fairbrother, M., Giordano, G. N., Wu, C., & Wilkes, R. (2021). Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States. Social Science Research, 95, Article 102537.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Sher, C., & Wu, C. (2021). Who stays physically active during COVID-19? Inequality and exercise patterns in the united states. Socius.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Wu, C. (2021). Education and social trust in global perspective. Sociological Perspectives, 64(6), 1166–1186, Article 0731121421990045.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Wu, C. (2021). How stable is generalized trust? Internal migration and the stability of trust among Canadians. Social Indicators Research, 153, 129–147.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Wu, C. (2021). Social capital and COVID-19: A multidimensional and multilevel approach. Chinese Sociological Review, 53(1), 27–54.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Wu, C., Qian, Y., & Wilkes, R. (2021). Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during COVID-19. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(5), 819–835.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Wu, C., Shi, Z., Wilkes, R., Wu, J., Gong, Z., He, N., Xiao, Z., Zhang, X., Lai, W., Zhou, D., Zhao, F., Yin, X., Pxiong, P., Zhou, H., Chu, Q., Cao, L., Tian, R., Tan, Y., Yang, L., . . . Giordano, G. N. (2021). Chinese citizen satisfaction with government performance during COVID-19. Journal of Contemporary China, 30(132), 930–944.
Pat Armstrong
Chapter in Edited Book
Armstrong, P., Armstrong, H., & Choiniere, J. (2021). Putting life into years: Promoting health and joy in nursing homes. In I. Rootman, P. Edwards, M. Levasseur, & F. Grunberg (Eds.), Health promotion and older adults in Canada: The Canadian experience (pp. 438–450). Canadian Scholars’ Press.
Sheila Cavanagh
Chapter in Edited Book
Cavanagh, S. L. (2021a). Bathroom discrimination. In A. E. Goldberg & G. Beemyn (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of trans studies (Vol. 1, pp. 71–74). SAGE Publications, Inc.
Sheila Cavanagh
Chapter in Edited Book
Cavanagh, S. L. (2021b). Sexing the teacher: Voyeuristic pleasure in the Amy Gehring case. In M. Fitzgerald & S. Rayter. (Eds.), Queerly Canadian: An introductory reader in sexuality studies (2nd. ed., pp. 311–328). Canadian Scholars Press.
Nancy J. Mandell
Chapter in Edited Book
Mandell, N., & Kamenitz, L. (2021). Women moving into later life: Aging bodies, changing identities. In V. Zawilski (Ed.), Body studies in Canada: Critical approaches to embodied experiences (pp. 72–91). Canadian Scholars Press.
Eric Mykhalovskiy
Chapter in Edited Book
Mykhalovskiy, E., Comer, L., Gruson-Wood, J., Hastings, C., & Strang, M. (2021). Teaching institutional ethnography as an alternative sociology. In P. C. Luken & S. Vaughan (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of institutional ethnography (pp. 47–64). Palgrave MacMillan Cham.
Hira Singh
Chapter in Edited Book
Singh, H. (2021a). How Indian indenture civilized England. In B. Samaroo, P. Gooptar, & K. Mahabir (Eds.), Global Indian diaspora: Charting new frontiers. Routledge.
Hira Singh
Chapter in Edited Book
Singh, H. (2021b). Continued exclusion of lower castes: Contemporary relevance of Ambedkar-Ganghi debate. In A. Rathor (Ed.), Reclaiming Ambedkar. Oxford University Press.
Philip D. Walsh
Chapter in Edited Book
Walsh, P. (2021). Hannah Arendt (1906–1975). In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Wiley-Blackwell.
Pat Armstrong
Invited Lecture
Lecture in Honour of Pat Kaufert given by Pat Armstrong at the University of Manitoba, Sept. 17, 2021.
Cary Wu
Refereed Article
Haddon, E., & Wu, C. (2021). How Does Actual Inequality Shape People’s Perceptions of Inequality? A Class Perspective. Sociological Perspectives, 07311214211062106.
Pat Armstrong
Edited Book
Armstrong, P., & Armstrong, H. (Eds.). (2020). The privatization of care: The case of nursing homes. Routledge.
Pat Armstrong
Edited Book
Mykhalovskiy, E., Choiniere, J., Armstrong, P., & Armstrong, H. (Eds.). (2020). Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science and Health Care Canada. University of Toronto Press.
Pat Armstrong
Refereed Article
Liu, M., Maxwell, C. J., Armstrong, P., Schwandt, M., Moser, A., Mcgregor, M. J., Bronskill, S. E., & Dhalla, I. A. (2020). COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario and British Columbia. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 192(47), E1540–E1546.
Deborah Davidson
Refereed Article
Cadell, S., Lambert, M. R., Davidson, D., Greco, C., & Macdonald, M. E. (2020). Memorial tattoos: Advancing continuing bonds theory. Death Studies, 46(1), 132–139.
Amber Gazso
Refereed Article
Gazso, A. (2020). Dueling discourses, power, and the construction of the recovering addict: When social assistance confronts addiction in Toronto, Canada. Critical Social Policy, 40(1), 130–150.
Amber Gazso
Refereed Article
Gazso, A., Smith-Carrier, T., Baker-Collins, S., & Smith, C. (2020). The generationing of social assistance receipt and ‘welfare dependency’ in Toronto, Canada. Social Problems, 67(3), 585–601.
J. Paul Grayson
Refereed Article
Côté, J. E., Grayson, J. P., Roberts, S., & Chen, L. H. (2020). Beyond HEQCO’s skills assessments: Validation of a measure of students’ academic capital and evidence of grade inflation in Ontario’s high schools and universities. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 194, 16–38.
J. Paul Grayson
Refereed Article
Grayson, J. P. (2020a). Keeping the faith: The university experience and apostasy. The Canadian Journal of Higher Education / Revue canadienne d'enseignement supérieur, 50(2), 54–70.
J. Paul Grayson
Refereed Article
Grayson, J. P. (2020b). The emperor’s new clothes: Maclean’s, NSSE, and the inappropriate ranking of Canadian universities. The Canadian Journal of Higher Education / La Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur, 50(3), 14–35.