Our faculty members regularly publish their research in leading journals including Social Forces, Social Science Research, Social Science & Medicine, Work, Employment, and Society, Urban Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Canadian Review of Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology and others.
We publish award-winning books with university presses like Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Duke, Toronto, UBC, and with other publishers including Palgrave, Routledge, Between the Lines, Pluto and Bloomsbury.
Beyond publications, many of our faculty members are public sociologists, sharing their work with the media, policy makers and community partners.
Browse the cutting edge research from our tireless and dedicated faculty members who continue to push boundaries and gain recognition for their contributions. We hope their efforts help and inspire your work. Please feel free to reach out to us for collaboration opportunities.
Featured Publication
Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²) have provided researchers with new texts that underline the gulf between Marx's critical theory and the dogmatism of many twentieth-century Marxisms.
This work reconstructs with great textual and historical rigour, but in a form accessible to those encountering Marx for the first time, a number of little noted, or often misunderstood, stages in his intellectual biography.
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.