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Power and Justice
The department's focus in this area examines social inequality along multiple dimensions including race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, gender, class and other dimensions. Faculty in the area also look at social institutions, social processes and social practices. They analyze crime, policing surveillance, social movements, resistance as well as studies of citizenship and identity, education and social inequality, the relationship between economic inequality and political attitudes in cross-national perspective, policing and terrorism studies, and income inequality and crime across nations. Key to this area is the study of processes that are shaped by power.
Research Stories
SSHRC Insight Grant DIY: Digital Safety
Digitally Informed Youth (DIY): Digital Safety is a 5-year project that aims to empower young people and provide them with tailored resources so they can have safe and enjoyable interactions online and offline..
Sociology in Existential Times
Increasingly, the world’s most pressing problems are framed as “existential threats.” This includes fears over pandemics, wars, democratic backsliding, declining birth rates, accelerating climate change, and advances in artificial intelligence. Such threats represent turning points that fundamentally reshape how societies function and have significant implications for sociology and the pursuit of justice.