Prof. Yue Qian co-authors paper on the role of gender in how education expansion matters for intergenerational mobility
The paper “Gender, equation expansion and intergenerational mobility around the world” looks at global evidence of education’s role in intergenerational mobility, and presents global evidence as calling for a gender-sensitive understanding of how education expansion matters for intergenerational mobility.
Contexts magazine publishes first issue under leadership of Prof. Abrutyn and Ghaziani
Contexts aims to make the best sociological research accessible to broad audiences while focusing on the most pressing issues and debates of our time. Led by Sociology Profs. Seth Abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani, the issue focuses on the unfulfilled promise of choice.
Watch: Dr. Anna Zajacova presents the Kaspar Naegele Honorary Lecture
Dr. Anna Zajacova argues chronic pain should play a central role in the sociodemographic study of health, health care and policy because it is a sensitive measure of population health, and reflects social conditions, sociopolitical context, and beliefs and prejudices of society.
Profs. Nelson and Raker interviewed by department led Contexts Magazine
Profs. Laura Nelson and Ethan Raker were interviewed by Contexts Magazine, a quarterly sociology magazine aimed at the broader public, and led by UBC Sociology Profs. Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn.
Professor Tom Kemple explores the ‘Faustian’ bargain Marx and sociologists make when translating theory into practice
Professor Tom Kemple’s new book explores how Karl Marx and classical sociologists take up a ‘Faustian’ bargain by translating theory into practice while making a pact or wager with the diabolical social, political, and economic forces of the modern world.
Dr. Kathryn McConnell to join UBC Sociology faculty in 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Kathryn McConnell will be joining our department in July 2024.
PhD Candidate Ryan Stillwagon receives grant from UBC’s Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund
Congratulations to UBC Sociology PhD Candidate Ryan Stillwagon, whose partnership with Saige Community Food Bank & Community Kitchen won a community grant from UBC’s Partnership Recognition and Exploration fund.
Prof. Yue Qian and PhD student Manlin Cai publish article “Mate preferences and platform choices among Chinese immigrant online daters in Vancouver” in Canadian Review of Sociology
Qian and Cai’s findings suggest that the social distance created by offline segregation is projected into online dating settings. Rapid digitalization lead to the formation of ethnic online communities, particularly popular among racialized immigrants. The success of multiculturalism in Canada will require addressing the challenges digital ethnic enclaves pose for intergroup contact and racial/ethnic equality.
Department Head Catherine Corrigall-Brown discusses her new book “Keeping the March Alive”
We spoke to Prof. Catherine Corrigall Brown about her recent release “Keeping the March Alive: How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump’s America”.
Professor Tom Kemple receives the Martha Foschi Award
Dr. Tom Kemple has brought research and teaching together in very compelling and creative ways, through his teaching work in the Urban Ethnographic Field School and a global seminar in Guatemala (both of which provide research opportunities for students) but also through research he is currently engaged in examining these very fields schools and the experiences of students and community partners, truly bringing research and teaching into dialogue with each other.