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
Current Projects
- Resiliency Formation in the Lives of Homeless Women
Laura Huey, Peter Hoakentopicssocial stratification, homelessness, mental health, victimization, usage/access to social services and healthcare
- The Nature of Truth
Anton Allahartopicspolitical truth, historical truth, religious truth, absolute truth, positivism, narrative
- Examining the idea of 'Success'
Lauren Barrtopicsideology, identity, success
- Utopia and Everyday Life
Michael Gardinertopicsutopia, everyday life
- The social, cultural and human capital factors that shape the children of immigrants’ economic and social integration
Teresa Abadatopicsimmigrant integration, human capital, social and cultural factors
Completed Projects
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
SSC 5402
dcalnits@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
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
SSC 5407
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
SSC 5211
519-661-2111 x84849
janice.forsyth@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
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)
SSC 5424
519-661-2111 x85139
megardin@uwo.ca
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Anders Holm, Professor
- Quantitative methods
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse
- Social stratification
- Inter-generational mobility
- Sociology of health
SSC 5327
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Laura Huey, Professor
- Policing
- Criminal victimization
- Mental health
- Extremism
- Qualitative research methods
- Evidence based policy-making
SSC 5213
519-661-2111 x85151
lhuey@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
SSC 5430
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
SSC 5415
519-661-2111 x87356
kaitlynn.mendes@uwo.ca
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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
SSC 5413
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
SSC 5316
519-661-2111 x85142
howard.ramos@uwo.ca
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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
SSC 5409
519-661-2111 x85045
yoko.yoshida@uwo.ca
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Anna Zajacova, Professor
- Social epidemiology
- Health inequalities
- Demography
- Lifecourse and aging
- Ethnicity
- Quantitative methods
SSC 5330
519-661-2111 x85123
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
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