On Thursday September 5th, 11:00am – 12:15pm, Professor Andrew Jorgenson (Department of Sociology, Boston College), will give a talk entitled: “Emissions, Inequality, and Human Well-Being.” Location: Anthropology and Sociology Building Room 2107.
On Friday, September 6th, 11:00am – 12:15pm, Professor Dana Fisher (Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park) will give a talk entitled: “American Resistance: Looking Back while Marching Forward.” Location: Anthropology and Sociology Building Room 2107.
The boundaries of personal networks often shift, because their components are constantly changing. While conventional network generators and proxies rely heavily on relationship- and acquaintanceship-based perspectives, a bottom-up approach can capture network structures and dynamics contact by contact, thus revealing the underlying nature of ties (edges) among actors (nodes). By comparing and contrasting lesser-known contact […]
In the first part of this talk, Lee will introduce a new method for acquiring and interpreting data on cognitive (or perceptual) networks. We refer to the method as perceptual tomography, it aggregates multiple 3rd-party data on the perceived presence or absence of individual properties and pairwise relationships. Key features of the method include: its […]
Sara Teitelbaum (Université de Montréal) ANSO 2107 | Feb. 14 11am-12:30pm “Forest sector engagement with the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC): Examining the role of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in Canada” The Department of Sociology is proud to serve as a medium for ongoing discussion and lecture in various areas of […]
Mark Stoddart (Visiting Scholar) ANSO 2107 | Feb 25, 2020 | 11:00am-12:30pm “Offshore Oil. Eco-Tourism, and Social Features: Building Social-Ecological Well-being in Coastal Communities”
Daniel Maman (Ben Gurion University) ANSO 2107 | Feb 27 11:00am-12:30pm The Making of Homo Financius: Conventions, Emotions and Morality in Financial Education The individualization, privatization and marketization of risk management are defining features of current financialized capitalism. Under these conditions, individuals are required to manage economic and social risks of various types through their […]
By: Hamid Abdollahyan, Visiting Scholar from the University of Tehran Due to the spread of COVID-19, Hamid’s talk will be postponed to a later date, the new date is still TBA. The Department of Sociology is proud to serve as a medium for ongoing discussion and lecture in various areas of study, as such we host […]
UBC Professors Sylvia Berryman (Philosophy) and Thomas Kemple (Sociology) are teaming up once again with Go Global to offer a unique encounter with global systems, oppression, poverty, and civil society activism.