Share your stories to celebrate Profs. Becki Ross’ and Gillian Creese’s retirements
As part of our celebration of their careers and retirement, we invite students, alumni, faculty and staff to share stories and photos Profs. Becki Ross and Gillian Creese. These stories and pictures will be used as part of our celebrations, shared via our website and delivered to each of them respectively.
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.
Congratulations to Operations Coordinator Conor Trahar on new role with Faculty of Arts
UBC Sociology congratulates our Operations Coordinator Conor Trahar on his new Project Coordinator position at UBC Faculty of Arts’ Workday Student Implementation. His last day at UBC Sociology will be March 3.
PhD student Manlin Cai publishes single authored paper “For the Sake of Parents? Marriages of Convenience between Lesbians and Gay Men in China” in LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Cai’s article “For the Sake of Parents? Marriages of Convenience between Lesbians and Gay Men in China” examines how parents of couples entering into “convenience marriages” make sense of these unions. Her work highlights how familism and individualism are intertwined to shape Chinese families and sexualities.
Prof. Aryan Karimi publishes op-ed “How equity, diversity, and inclusion policies are becoming are becoming a tool for capitalism” in The Conversation
Prof. Karimi’s piece discusses the use of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Educational Frameworks in recent years.
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.
Prof. Karimi to speak as part of the Center for Migration Studies New Voices Speaker Series on November 7th
In his lecture, Prof. Karimi aims to address the theoretical impasse faced by migration studies by examining existing assimilation theories against the Popperian scientific criteria.
Celebrating our Faculty’s Recent Publications
Last month, UBC Sociology held a Book Launch Party to celebrate some of our faculty who published new books during the pandemic. After a long time of doing research and writing remotely, it was wonderful to come together to share what we had learned.
Study abroad with a Global Seminar in Guatemala
Study Power and Oppression and Theories of Civil Society on location in rural Guatemala! 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.