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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.
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Faculty Experts in Power and Justice
Tracey Adams, Professor
- Work
- Professions
- Regulation of professions in Canada
- Social inequality
- Gendered professions
- Health professions
Dale Ballucci, Associate Professor
- Sociology of Law
- Sociology of childhood
- Criminology and Policing
- Young offenders
- Theories of Governance
- Administration of the criminal justice system
David Calnitsky, Assistant Professor
- Economic Sociology
- Inequality
- Gender
- Work
- Poverty
- Social policy
Kate H. Choi, Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Research on Social Inequality
- Social Demography
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Inequality
- Family Sociology
- Racial Inequality
- Quantitative Methodology
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility
- Life course
- Education
- Labour markets
- Union and non-union influences on wages
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
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Janice Forsyth, Associate Professor
- Aboriginal physical practices, health, and identity
- Power relations and the body
- Sociology of sport
- Sport and Canadian culture
- Canadian sport history
Michael Gardiner, Professor
- Sociological theory
- Theories of affect (especially boredom)
- Sociology of the everyday
- Utopia
- Dialogical social theory (the work of Mikhail Bakhtin in particular)
519-661-2111 x85139
megardin@uwo.ca
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Anders Holm, Professor
Acting Chair, Department of Sociology
- Quantitative methods
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse
- Social stratification
- Inter-generational mobility
- Sociology of health
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
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Laura Huey, Professor
- Policing
- Criminal victimization
- Mental health
- Extremism
- Qualitative research methods
- Evidence based policy-making
519-661-2111 x85151
lhuey@uwo.ca
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Mila Kolpashnikova, Assistant Professor
- Time use
- Gender Inequality
- Housework
- Fear of Falling
519-661-2111 x87177
kkolpash@uwo.ca
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Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor
Assistant Dean, Student Experience, Faculty of Social Science
- Social inequality
- Social class
- Sociology of work
- Higher education
- Vocational education
- School-work transitions
519-661-2111 x85385
wlehmann@uwo.ca
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Kaitlynn Mendes, Associate Professor
- Gender inequality
- Social media
- Sexual violence
- Youth
- Mixed methods research
519-661-2111 x87356
kaitlynn.mendes@uwo.ca
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Julie McMullin, Professor
- Social Inequality
- Aging and the Life Course
- Gender Inequality
- Family
- Paid and Unpaid Work
519 661-2111 x83689
mcmullin@uwo.ca
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Lora Phillips, Assistant Professor
- Inequality
- Precarity
- Vulnerable populations
- Health and well-being
- Urban sociology
Anabel Quan-Haase, Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Information and Media Studies
- New media and social change
- Digital activism
- Social media
- Social networks
- Digital social capital
- Scholarly digital communication
519-661-2111 x86952
aquan@uwo.ca
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Howard Ramos, Professor
Chair, Department of Sociology
- Political sociology
- Immigration
- Equity, diversity, inclusion
- Social change
- Media studies
- Secondary cities
Scott Schaffer, Associate Professor
- Contemporary and global social theory
- Processes of social change
- Social inclusion
- Social ethics
- Public sociology
- Cultural critique, and Resistance movements
Sean Waite, Associate Professor
- Social inequality
- Gender inequality
- Higher education outcomes
- LGBTQ and the labour market
- LGBTQ identity, poverty and health
- Criminology and deviance
Yoko Yoshida, Associate Professor
- Immigration and integration
- Social statistics
- Race and ethnicity
- Social inequality
- Inequality in health
Anna Zajacova, Professor
- Social epidemiology
- Health inequalities
- Demography
- Lifecourse and aging
- Quantitative methods
- Measurement
519-661-2111 x85123
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
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