Sociology
Sociology has specialization in the following core areas of study:
- Environment, community, and social movements;
- Family and the life course;
- Gender and sexuality;
- Health and healthcare;
- Knowledge, culture, and power;
- Race, ethnicity, and immigration; and
- Work, economy, and globalization.
Explore our Programs in Sociology
Faculty Members in Sociology
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Abrutyn, Seth | Social theory; Sociological Theory; Suicide; Social Solidarity/Morality; Emotions/Microsociology; Medical/Mental Health; youth |
| Berdahl, Jennifer | Ostracism, Harassment and Bullying, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Power and Status in Groups, Harassment, Work-Family Interface |
| Cheong, Amanda | Sociology; migration; Citizenship and Legal Status; Statelessness |
| Childress, Clayton | Cultural Production, Reception, and Meaning Making, Taste, Decision Making, Inequality, Organizations, Markets |
| Corrigall-Brown, Catherine | Sociology; social movements; identity; political sociology; social psychology |
| Fu, Qiang | a multidisciplinary perspective on institutional changes, social networks and mental health over the urban space; comparative and temporal analysis of civic engagement and identity; child and youth well-being (e.g., obesity and school bullying); developing |
| Fuller, Sylvia | precarious employment; inequality; work; gender and work; immigration, Work and Labour, Inequality, Gender, Economic Sociology, Social Policy, Welfare state restructuring |
| Ghaziani, Amin | Sociology; Sexualities / LGBTQ studies / Queer studies; Urban sociology; culture / cultural sociology; nightlife |
| Hanser, Amy | Work and employment; gender; consumption/consumerism; contemporary Chinese society, Culture and markets, inequality, gender, consumption, service work, China |
| Hirsh, Elizabeth | Sociology; Law; Structures and Organization; Inequality, Gender and Race Discrimination, Work Organizations, Law |
| Huyser, Kimberly | |
| Johnson, Phyllis | Allocation of financial and human resources by families coping with stressful circumstances, including immigration and resettlement, family separation, unemployment, and conflicts between work and family responsibilities |
| Jorgenson, Andrew | Sociology and related studies; Environment and Community; sociology of health; environmental sociology; global political economy; sociology of development |
| Karimi, Aryan | Sociology; migration and refugee flows; role of ethnic and racial boundaries in assimilation practices; lived experiences of racialized refugee and diasporic communities |
| Kennedy, Emily | Sociology; Environment and Society; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Gender; social class; Sustainable consumption |
| Lauer, Sean | Urban sociology and community studies |
| Lauster, Nathanael | Population, Housing, Urban Studies, Crowding, Home & Housing, Technology & Environment, City Building & Regulation, Family, Demography, Health |
| Maghbouleh, Neda | Migration, Race, and Identity; Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities; race; Racialization; Im/migration; identity |
| Mawani, Renisa | Sociology; Colonial Legal History; critical theory; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Race and Racism; Time and Temporality |
| Nelson, Laura | Social movements, culture, gender, and organizations and institutions, Processes around the formation of collective identities, Social movement strategy in feminist and environmental movements, Continuities between cycles of activism and the role of place in shaping social movement activity, Intersectionality in U.S. women’s movements, Coverage of social movements in news media over time, Ways in which history is recorded and remembered, Gender inequality in startups and entrepreneurship |
| Qian, Yue | Sociology; family; Gender Relationship; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Demography; Family Studies; Gender Studies; sociology |
| Raker, Ethan | Social stratification, Medical sociology, Environmental sociology, Relationship between climate change and inequalities in human health and community well-being |
| Richardson, Lindsey | Sociology of health and illness, substance use, HIV/AIDS, urban health, sociology of work and economic life, health disparities |
| Silva, Tony | |
| Stecklov, Guy | Family and household demographic studies; Fertility; Migration; Mortality; Demography; Studies of Canadian society; Demographic behavior; Historical social change; Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Migration and assimilation; Population and Development; Research and survey methodology |
| Tindall, David | environmental movement, social movements, environmental protest, social protest, social networks, social aspects of climate change, Aboriginal protest about natural resources and environmental issues, social surveys, polling, environmental politics, environmental attitudes, environmental values, opinion about the environment, protest about pipelines, protest about oil sands, protest about tar sands, wilderness, wilderness preservation, use of social media in social protest, use of social media in social movements, social media and social networks, social aspects of forestry, climate change policy, news media, social psychology of environmental issues, Envionmental sociology, social research methods, aboriginal forestry, social science |
| Veenstra, Gerry | Sociology and social studies of health, health systems and health care; Health equity; Sociology, n.e.c.; social determinants of health; Socioeconomic status and health; racial health inequalities; Bourdieusian field theory, lifestyle practices and health; culture and class; Quantitative Methods; Sociology of soccer |
| Wilkes, Rima | protest, media and First Nations, media and racism, immigration, Collective Action by Indigenous Nations, Media and social movements, Public Opinion, Immigration, Trust |
| Yodanis, Carrie | Family, Marriage, Statistics |
