Reading Sociology

Team
Preface
Introduction
1. Decolonizing Sociology
Section Intro
1. Yvonne Sherwood, Anti-colonial Sociological Imagination and Praxis
2. Hayden King, Conceptualizing Indigenous Freedom
3. Cheyanne Thomas, Utilizing Indigenous Research to build a Radically Resurgent Future
4. Jackie Price, Creating Create Into my Worldview
5. Kyle Willmott, Taxes, Citizenship, and Indigenous-Settler Relations
6. Enakshi Dua, Colonialism: Interrogating the Sociological Understanding of the Emergence of Capitalism
7. Sylvia Bawa, A Global Sociological Imagination
2. Sociological Theory
Section Intro
8. Christopher Powell, Transforming Sociological Theory
9. Jean-Sébastien Guy & Maria Brisbane, Emile Durkheim, Founder of Sociology
10. Shirin Shahrokni, "There is No Such Thing as Non-Racial Capitalism"
11. Ronjon Paul Datta, Ideology and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Societies: Louis Althusser's Theoretical Intervention
12. Elke Winter, What Max Weber's Sociology Can Teach us about the Decolonization of Scientific Knowledge
13. Lance T. McCready & Clayton Cobb, W.E.B. Du Bois Contributions to Canadian Sociology
14. Erica Lawson, Black Canadian Feminist Thought
3. Inequality
Section Intro
15. Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk, (Dis)Connected: Indigenous Identity and Politics of Reconnection
16. Shirin Khayambashi & Shila Khayambashi, Muslim Experience in Canadian Multiculturalism
17. Cary Wu, Categorical Inequality in Social Trust
18. Sandra Smele, Disrupting Disability: Centralizing Colonization
19. Mikayla Sherry & Amanda van Beinum, Rethinking Health Disparities in Canada: A Health Justice Approach
20. Taylor Paige Winfield, Vulnerable Sociology: Unpacking 'Vulnerabilities' and Developing Skills for Justice and Trauma-Informed Research
4. Sociology of Gender, Sexuality and Relationships
Section Intro
21. Eva Jewell, Settler colonialism, age, and gender
22. Janna Klostermann, Caring Rebels: Exploring the Social Organization of Care/Work Through Stories of Resistance
23. Palak Dhiman, Are "you" Going to Have an Arranged Marriage?: Examining Subversive Resistance to Stereotypical Discourses of Arranged Marriage by Second-Generation Canadians of South Asian Origins
24. Sarah Shah & Maryam Khan, The Search for Ethics in Research: Learning from Non-binary, Queer, and Trans Muslims
25. Sarah Knudson & Bidushy Sadika, "It's complicated": Online Constructions of Disability and Romantic Relationship Formation
5. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Section Intro
26. Cheryl Teelucksingh, Being Black in Nature
27. Natalie Delia Deckard & Andrea Roman Alfaro, Constructing the Foreigner: Canadian Processes of Racialization around the "Latin American" Population Group
28. Leyla Sall, Blacks in New Brunswick's Social Fabric: The Trap of Symbolic Inclusion
29. Xiaobei Chen, Beyond #StopAsianHate: Understanding the Structural Roots of Systemic Anti-Asian Racism
30. Monica Mi Hee Hwang, COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Hate in Canada: Contemporary Reactions with Historical Parallels
31. Elaine Coburn, Not So Fragile: White Power in Canadian Social Life
6. Migration and Diaspora
Section Intro
32. Sanam Vaghefi, 'Leaving Everything Behind': Power and Agency in the Migration Trajectories of Iranian refugees in British Columbia
33. Alejandro Hernández-Ramírez, An Intersectional Approach to Agency and Structure
34. Eloy Rivas-Sanchez, Illegals! The Social Condition of the Undocumented Population in Canada in the Twenty-First Century
35. Jiyoung Lee-An, Marriage Migration and National Boundary Making in Canada in historical and contemporary contexts
36. Zohreh Bayatrizi, Rezvaneh Erfani & Samira Torabi, Grieving Immigrants: Emotions at the Intersections of Ethnicity and Politics
7. Sociology of Education
Section Intro
37. Terry Wotherspoon & Emily Milne, Transforming Education: What Are Schools Doing to Advance Decolonization?
38. Diane Farmer, Sociology of Francophone Minority Education in Canada
39. Oral Robinson, Alexander Wilson & Chris Cheuk Yin Lam, Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education: Theoretical and Pedagogical Strategies for Cultivating Critical Hope
40. Mervyn Horgan & Saara Liinamaa, Why You've Probably Never Heard of the First Canadian to Get a PhD in Sociology
41. Danielle Lorenz & Hannah Sullivan Facknitz, Challenging Academic Ableism By Cripping Crisis Learning
42. Eugena Kwon, Emmanuel Kyeremeh, Yujiro Sano & Mackenzie Green, Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-secondary international students' experiences of career-related stress
43. Irene Shankar & Kristin Lozanski, Academia and the propagation of privilege
8. Crime, Law and Policing
Section Intro
44. Andrew Crosby, Policing Indigenous Dissent in the Settler Colonial Present
45. Gülden Özcan, Policing as Nation-Building: A Brief History of the North-West Mounted Police
46. Suzanne Lenon, "...Likely to Be Dangerous to the Public Health": Anti-Chinese Racism and the Making of White Settler Space in Lethbridge, Alberta
47. Alicia Clifford & Robert Henry, Targets of Assimilation - Indigenous Women's Experiences in a Healing Lodge Prison on the Canadian Prairies
48. Julius Haag, Close to Home: Thinking Sociologically about Systemic Racism in Canadian Policing
49. Temitope Oriola, How Police Departments Can Identify and Oust Killer Cops
9. Culture and Media
Section Intro
50. Carl E. James, "Not a Tangible Asset": What Keeping Canada White has Meant for its Enrichment
51. Jennifer Long, Secil Ertorer & Vicki Esses, Canadian Workplace Culture: Multi or Mono-cultural?
52. Abu Haque, Expansion of Techno-Capital: New Space of Contestation
53. Narjes Hashemi & Nikasha Tangirala, Discovering Inequities in Historical Narrative: A Discourse Analysis of the Representation of First Nations Canadians in "Discover Canada: A Study Guide for Citizenship"
54. Taeja McKoy, "I'm Unique!": Children's Perceptions of Diversity and Representation in the Media
55. Mike Follert, The Cunning of Politeness
10. Political Sociology and Social Movements
Section Intro
56. Jeff Denis & Sarah Beckman, Azhe-mino-gahbewewin: Returning to a Place of Good Standing in Treaty #3 Territory
57. Johanne Jean-Pierre & Jessica Bundy, How Advocacy Strengthened African Nova Scotians' Social Capital Throughout their History
58. Audrey Rousseau, The Internment of Ukrainian Canadians in Québec: The erasure of Spirit Lake Camp from the Collective Memory
59. Jean-Phillipe Warren, What Makes Quebec Special
60. Mireille McLaughlin, Céline, Poutine and Decolonization: Nationalism and Anti-Racism in Francophone Canada
61. Tobin Haley & Jessica Vorstermans, What is Disability Justice?
Glossary

For each chapter, the following have been created:
· 3-5 Critical engagement questions
· 1-2 Larger creative individual or group assignment ideas
· 3-4 Suggested readings
· 3-4 Suggested media resources (websites, blogs, podcasts, films, videos, etc.)
· 3-5 Multiple-choice questions
In addition, there will be flashcards.

Johanne Jean-Pierre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She conducts bilingual research projects in the fields of sociology of education and child and youth studies. Her current research program explores postsecondary trajectories and experiences, alternative school discipline practices, and child and youth care pedagogy. Her research focuses on the social-cultural dynamics that can inform promising policies and practices to work with refugee and immigrant youth, African Canadian communities, and linguistic minorities such as Francophone minority communities.

Vanessa Watts is Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Bear Clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology at McMaster University. She holds the Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies in which she is overseeing projects related to gender-based violence against Indigenous women and Indigenous-based cultural conservation practices across human and other-than-human societies. Her research more broadly focuses on Indigenous material knowledge production, epistemology and ontology within Indigenous cosmologies.

Carl E. James teaches in the Faculty of Education and the Graduate Program in Sociology at York University where he is the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, and Senior Advisor in Equity and Representation to the V.P Equity. His research interests include examination of the ways in which legislation, policies, programs and practices inform societal and institutional cultures and shape the lived experiences of Black and other racialized people in terms of their schooling, education, employment, and social opportunities and outcomes.

Patrizia Albanese is the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). She is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a past president of the Canadian Sociological Association. Her research focuses on policies affecting children, youth, and families in Canada, and is currently the lead researcher on a Women and Gender Equality grant (Gov't of Canada) on post-pandemic economic recovery of racialized women in the City of Toronto.

Xiaobei Chen is Professor of Sociology and Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is President of the Canadian Sociological Association (2020-2021). Her research and teaching interests include: sociology of childhood and youth, governance and power, citizenship, racism, colonialism, citizenship, the Chinese diaspora, and Buddhist social thought. Her latest book is a co-edited volume, The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada. Her current research and community engagement are around anti-Asian racism associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and Sinophobia.

Michael Graydon is Faculty Chair of the Humanities Faculty and Chair of the Research Ethics Board at Algoma University. His areas of expertise include social history, LGBT rights movements, social movements, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, masculinity, and health. Dr. Graydon is passionate about teaching and has made a lasting impression on many of his students. He is a Member of Council at the Council of Ontario Universities.

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Special Features

• Sociology from a Canadian perspective - this text is written by a diverse team of both emerging and well-known sociologists across Canada to give students and opportunity to see Canadian sociology in action.
• Concise, up-to-date overview of the discipline in Canada via a wealth of edited selections exploring 10 pertinent themes in sociological inquiry, including inequality, education, race, migration, gender & sexuality, politics, that offer students a wide-ranging view of recent sociological research.
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• Brings anti-colonial and Indigenous perspectives to the forefront, as the book combines traditional sociological topics and new topics that emphasize disruption and the unsettling of Canada as a settler colonial project. This edition begins with a historical situating of Turtle Island as central to its narrative.