Can a just transition achieve decarbonization? PhD student Parker Muzzerall examines fossil fuel community opposition
UBC Sociology PhD student Parker Muzzerall recently published his first sole-authored paper. He uses interviews with oil and gas workers to reframe decarbonization as an issue of ontological security.
Same-sex couples now live in 99.5 per cent of U.S. counties, Prof. Amin Ghaziani finds in new study
The trend is now being driven primarily by male couples moving away from traditional ‘gaybourhoods’ and into the broader community.
Gendering digital labor: Prof. Yue Qian analyses work and family digital communication across 29 countries
In a new paper, Prof. Yue Qian explores how the labor of using technology for digital communication is gendered across the domains of work and family.
Fronts and Friends: Prof. Lindsey Richardson examines social contingencies in the management of drug debt in new paper
In a new paper, Prof. Lindsey Richardson explores experiences in managing debt to dealers and within social networks adjacent to drug markets.
Prof. Amanda Cheong speaks with Contexts about her award-winning article about driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants
Prof. Amanda Cheong spoke with the Contexts Blog in celebration of her recent award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Public Sociology and Sociological Practice.
Can a just transition achieve decarbonization? PhD student Parker Muzzerall investigates in his first sole-authored paper
Muzzerall shows how those living and working in the Oil Sands remain skeptical of renewable energy, optimistic about the long-term viability of fossil fuels, and strongly oppose the proposal for a just transition.
Prof. Alyssa Alexander examines the effect of parenthood on care workers’ earnings
Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS), the analysis shows that mothers experience wage penalties compared to fathers and non-mothers, while fathers experience wage premiums.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani examines new evidence from Census 2020 on the residential segregation of same-sex households
In a new research note, Prof. Amin Ghaziani uses 2020 census data to examine the residential patterns of same-sex households down to the neighborhood level.
Profs. Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn expand Durkheim’s theory of disruptions via queer nightlife in new paper
Profs. Ghaziani and Abrutyn develop a new Durkheimian theory of disruptions that explains why some members of a community are motivated to renew rather than replicate existing institutional structures.
UBC Sociology professor and graduate students receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Professor Lindsey Richardson and graduate students Sonali Patel, Tori Yang and Manlin Cai were all honoured with awards for their research.