The Department of Sociology at UBC is a research powerhouse—involved in a wide scope of research examining areas such as gender and sexuality, ethnicity, family and life course, environments, knowledge, and health and healthcare.
Our faculty and graduate students are dedicated to theoretically strong and empirically-oriented research representing our commitment to excellent scholarship.
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Prof. Alyssa Alexander examines the effect of parenthood on care workers’ earnings
July 26, 2024
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Prof. Amin Ghaziani examines new evidence from Census 2020 on the residential segregation of same-sex households
July 26, 2024
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Profs. Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn expand Durkheim’s theory of disruptions via queer nightlife in new paper
July 18, 2024
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