Working from home is a human rights issue, Prof. Sylvia Fuller tells CBC News
“It’s not just a convenience issue for people. It is a human rights issue, insofar as it maps onto folks with some disabilities [and] health conditions [who really need] that flexibility,” she said. “[There’s] a lot of people who are quietly still not wanting to get infected and wanting to protect their health and that of their family.”
Pay transparency is an important tool for workers and for more equitable working environments says Prof. Sylvia Fuller
“When you publish people’s salaries and they can actually see what they’re making [compared to] what their equivalent peers are making, for example, you do see the gender wage gap shrink,” says Fuller. This is relevant when you consider that in Canada, female employees aged 25 to 54 still earn 11.1 percent less per hour than male employees, and there are also significant racial wage gaps.
Watch: “Writing To Be Read: An Academic’s Guide to Crafting Lively, Persuasive Work” Contexts Senior Managing Editor Letta Page
UBC Sociology hosted Letta Page, senior managing editor of Contexts: Sociology for the Public, for a session exploring the radical act of clear, persuasive, and story-forward writing within and beyond traditional academic outlets.
Thanks to our Work Learn students!
UBC Sociology would like to say a big thank you to our Work Learn students, Lujan Ferreira, Naz Tavakolizadeh, and Maria Lee. Our Work Learns did a tremendous job helping out our Sociology staff over the past year, and we appreciate their contributions to our department.
Honours student Hal Kowalewski’s research questions the nature of identity and how our social positions shape our lives
Hal Kowalewski’s work under the supervision of Dr. Amy Hanser focuses on the role of consumption in the construction of individual and collective queer identity, utilizing theorists such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler.
Sociology Honours student Aida Ardelean to present research at American Sociological Association general meeting
Fifth Year Honours Sociology student Aida Ardelean will be presenting her Honours research paper at the upcoming American Sociological Association general meeting in Philadelphia. Her research, under the supervision of Dr. Sylvia Bartolic, focuses on personal attachment styles in relation to modern-day dating norms and hookup culture. We spoke to her about her work and […]
Yvonne Liang investigates how helicopter parenting affects second-generation university students
Yvonne Liang’s Honours thesis focuses on immigrant families’ helicopter parenting and the perception of independence for second-generation university students.
Watch: Dr. Erika Summers-Effler’s Distinguished Speaker Series Lecture
Dr. Erika Summer-Effler explores stories of environmental researchers and educators, particularly marine biologists and naturalists studying and teaching about whales with the goal of preservation of whale species, to better understand the relationships between emotion and other purposeful efforts to bring about social change.
Watch: Dr. Waverly Duck explains how a “food oasis” formed in a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh
Dr. Waverly Duck presented a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at UBC Sociology where he explained the formation of a “food oasis,” a concentration of seven supermarkets within a quarter-mile radius in East Liberty, a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Honours student Guoliang Zhang explores how China is handling anti-corruption
Honours student Guoliang Zhang’s (Bond) thesis focuses on focuses on China’s newly established National Supervision Commission (NSC), which is the country’s sole anti-corruption agency.