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Professor Becki Ross receives the Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award

 
Congratulations to Professor Becki Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton, who are the co-winners of the CSA's Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award for 2019. Both Ross and Hamilton are the first co-winners of the award.

Professor Amin Ghaziani curates a special symposium on “Queer Urbanisms”

 
Prof. Ghaziani curates a special symposium and authors the lead essay in the new issue of City & Community, the official journal of the community and urban sociology section of the ASA.

Professor Sinikka Elliott releases new book, “Pressure Cooker”

 
Along with fellow coauthors, Sarah Bowen and Joslyn Brento, the book explores why home cooking won't solve our problems and what we can do about it.
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Canadian Sociological Association @ Congress 2019

June 3, 2019 - June 6, 2019
8:30 am - 9:00 pm
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Introduction to Big Data and Automated Text Analysis for Social Scientists

June 7, 2019 - June 8, 2019


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Every day I use Sociology at work. The Sociology department at UBC offers great methods courses, which was a huge reason as to why I was hired. My Sociology training has also given me soft skills that help me add value to my projects. I have a deeper understanding of social circumstances and macrostructures that might be colouring the way our subjects respond.

Tiffany Eng
BA Sociology/Psychology