Is the Tide Turning on the Stigma of Mental Illness? Lessons from the U.S. National Stigma Studies Stigma is considered nearly as critical as treatment is to recovery for mental illness currently. While research has revealed improvements in mental health literacy globally, no scientific studies have documented sizeable decreases in cultural-level prejudice and discrimination. I […]
Harvey Krahn (University of Alberta) Talk is from 11:00-12:30. Reception to follow. Please RSVP: soci.events@ubc.ca “Tracking Generation X: Insights and Findings from the Edmonton Transitions Study” Abstract: The Edmonton Transitions Study (ETS) has tracked a cohort of high school seniors for 32 years (1985 – 2017), from late adolescence to early midlife (age 18 to […]
Dr. Terrell Carver presents a talk based on his forthcoming book, which addresses great-power politics through the gender ‘lens’ of both masculinity and femininity. It adapts current theorisations within a novel conceptual framework that presents gender as an asymmetrical binary.
Dr. Waverly Duck explains 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.
In this year’s Kaspar Naegele Honorary Lecture, Dr. Anna Zajacova will argue that chronic pain should play a central role in the sociodemographic study of health and health care and policy because it is a sensitive measure of population health, reflects social conditions, sociopolitical context, and beliefs and prejudices of society.
Suowei Xiao’s study explores how different nurturant care jobs become stratified in the emerging market for domestic work in contemporary China, as childcare jobs come to be higher-paid “semi-professions” while elderly care is marginalized and under-compensated.
Dr. Erika Summers-Effler considers potential alternative heuristics to levels-thinking in order to support connections between process social theory and empirical sociological work.
Professor Gary Genosko’s presentation reflects on a long-term project about the political philosophy journal Telos, an independently owned and operated major journal on Western Marxism and the Frankfurt School.
Dr. Ezra Zuckerman Sivan’s talk exploits the natural experiment represented by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to illuminate how institutionalized social rhythms provide a foundation for the lives of contemporary Americans.
Join UBC Sociology and 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.