Human Rights Watch 2017 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Country
A great resource that lists various country’s treatment of sexual orientations and gender identities. The report is available here.
Stats Can Report – People with a disability are twice as likely to be victims of violent crime
The report (available here) shows how people with a disability are far more likely to face violent crimes than others. These statistics confirm the need for challenging what we consider [...]
Immigrants are largely behind Canada’s status as one of the best-educated countries
An article in The Star (available here) quotes a number of Canadian sociologists who discuss recent findings that show the positive impact immigrants have on education levels.
Link between your smartphone and anxiety
In an interesting article from the CBC (White Coat, Black Art available here) recent research is reviewed about the link between young peoples’ use of smartphone and rising rates of anxiety [...]
Sexual Harassment of Women in Canada
Research from Abacus Data (available here) suggests that over half of all Canadian women (53%) have experienced unwanted sexual pressure. The reports authour writes, “People will likely debate [...]
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The BC Liberal party wrote the climate leadership strategy in the boardrooms of big oil
Shannon Daub & Zoë Yunker (graduate student in Sociology at UVic) just released a report based on their work with the Corporate Mapping Project. The article outlines how the previous BC [...]
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
This article, from the Atlantic, is a great summary of the iGen generation (those born after 1995). “The arrival of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of teenagers’ lives, [...]
CBC Report – Drugs, whats race got to do with it
In an excellent report, Geoff Turner details the links between drugs and race. The piece, available here makes a compelling case on how the war on drugs is really a war on visible minorities. An [...]
Contexts: Understanding people in their social worlds
Contexts (link here) is a great resource for anyone interested in issues/perspectives presented in more flexible ways than offered in traditional academic journals.
Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever
I want to thank one of my departmental colleagues, Mike Lang, for passing along this link as he thought it might help our students. The site also has an audio file so you can listen and not have [...]