Date and time: Tuesday, March 21, 2023. 1 – 3:30 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Monday, March 20). This is a registered event. See below for link. Recently, blatant infractions on women’s rights in Afghanistan have garnered outrage, interest and despondency from the global community. With increasing restrictions on […]
Date and time: Tuesday, March 9, 2023. 1 – 2:30 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Wednesday, March 8). This is a registered event. See below for link. How do we use research to transform our communities and contribute towards social change? How do we connect researchers and multiple publics […]
Sociology@York Newsletter, February 2023 Current Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness Dear Students, In our first newsletter in 2023 we introduce you to recent contributions to the Sociology of Health and Illness in our department. For the past few years of living through the Covid-19 pandemic, we have collectively seen and felt the […]
Please join us as we celebrate the release of new publications by some of our faculty and graduate students. Wednesday, January 25, 2023; 12-2 p.m. Zoom link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/93749700015?pwd=RDk2RlU0NTdIa0VpRE9nTzJ4SFZPUT09 Jean-Pierre, J., Watts, V., James, C. E., Albanese, P., Chen, X., & Graydon, M. (Eds.). (2023). Reading Sociology. Decolonizing Canada. Oxford University Press. This new edition of […]
A York University Resource Centre for Public Sociology Zoom Symposium Thursday, January 19 – Saturday, January 21, 2023 Note: all times are in Toronto’s EST (Eastern Standard Time) zone REGISTER by January 17, 2023. ZOOM LINK will be sent out January 18, 2023. Thursday, January 19 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Making Interview Research on Violence […]
RCPS Global Conversations Date and time: Friday, November 25, 2022. 11:30 – 1 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Thursday, November 24). This is a registered event. See below for link. In solidarity with the women of Iran and others protesting violent state repression following the tragic death of Mahsa […]
Check out our full Fall 2022 Sociology UPDigest! Dear Students, We hope that you have had a great start to the FW22 academic year. In this digest, we introduce you to our new (and former) Undergraduate Program Director, Deborah Davidson, as well as our new faculty member Wendy Makoons Geniusz. Please join us in welcoming […]
Members of the Department of Sociology at York University express our deep concern over the ongoing unrest in Iran following the tragic death of Mahsa Amini. We stand in solidarity with the women of Iran and with the civilian protestors who are bravely rising against oppression and discrimination. The unfolding news of violent crackdowns on […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies sociology Professor Emeritus Gordon Darroch, born in Calgary in 1940, died peacefully in the company of his family at Kensington Hospice in Toronto on Aug. 3. In 1967, Prof. Darroch accepted a faculty position in the Department of Sociology at York University, where he built a career as a […]
In collaboration with Founders College, African Studies and Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures. Wednesday, April 6 2-4pm EST Virtual event via Zoom Recently, various African countries have experienced political instability, including new civil wars, terrorist insurgencies, coup d’états, civil unrests, and mass protests (from #ENDSARS and #FixthecountryGhana to revolutionary movements in Sudan). Meanwhile, […]