As one of the top Sociology departments in the world, UBC Sociology offers graduate students the opportunity to specialize in one or more of our four different research areas, from environment and community, to health, sexuality and ethnicity.

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Welcome to our new graduate students | 2023W

 
UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming cohort of doctoral and master’s students to the department! With a wide range of focuses from gender and sexuality to transnationalism to environmental sociology, we look forward to seeing what new

PhD student Colter Uscola wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the American Sociology Association

 
Colter Uscola's paper, “Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride and a Thirst to Belong,” discusses how marginalized identities form, aiming to challenge current theoretical assumptions that dominate intervention strategies and recovery policy. We talked to him about his work on this article.

PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro presents her paper published in Environmental Sociology

 
UBC Sociology PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro recently published a paper titled, "Animals and climate change: A visual and discourse network analysis of Instagram posts" in Environmental Sociology with UBC Sociology Prof. David Tindall. 
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Three aspects attracted me to the PhD program in the Department of Sociology at UBC—the quality of the faculty members, the caliber of current graduate students enrolled in both the MA and PhD programs, and the financial support offered to incoming graduate students. These aspects combined generated a stimulating and productive academic environment with which to carry out study and research.

Edward Haddon
PhD in Sociology

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