General Inquiries:
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
725 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, ON,M5S 2J4
Canada
Tel: 416.978.3412
Fax: 416.978.3963
email:sociology.dept@utoronto.ca
We are located at the Southeast corner of Bloor st. West and Spadina Avenue. (see map)
Book launch:
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Richard Charles Lee
Canada-Hong Kong Library
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
130 St. George Street, 8th floor
Author Janet W. Salaff, Sociology, University of Toronto, will read from these in-depth tales of nine Hong Kong families. Eric Fong will comment on the book.
Co-authors:
Wong Siu-lun, Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong University
Arent Greve, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
The book launch is held as part of the conference, Home Sweet Home: Return Migration to Hong Kong and its Implications.
Editorships
Several Sociology faculty members have recently been appointed to editorial positions with prestigious academic journals. Scott Schieman was recently appointed editor of the journal, Sociology of Religion. The official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Religion is published quarterly and has a wide readership within the sociological study of religion.
In addition, Shyon Bauman has recently been appointed as a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology and John Myles has joined the editorial board of the American Sociological Review. These are the two top journals in sociology.
Professor Monica Boyd elected as chair of the International Migration Section, ASA. In 2010-2011 faculty member, Monica Boyd, will serve as the chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociology Association, the first Canadian scholar to be elected to that position. The section has over 600 members and it is one of the largest sections in the ASA. Monica has just completed her terms as President of the Canadian Sociological Association (2008-2009) and as President, the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada (2007-2009).
First year Sociology Ph.D. student, Marianne
Quirouette, has published an article in the prestigious British Journal
of Criminology. The article, co-authored with Laura Huey of
the University of Western Ontario, is entitled “ ‘Any Girl Can Call The
Cops, No Problem’: The Influence of Gender on Support for the Decision
to Report Criminal Victimization within Homeless Communities”. Huey and
Quirouette studied “anti-snitching” codes among the homeless which tend
to result in under-reporting of victimization of the homeless. They
found that, while the homeless adhered to a general tendency to avoid
reporting crimes to the authorities, they made an exception for women,
in the belief that women are inherently vulnerable and in need of
greater protection. This exception is rejected by many women, some of
whom reject it as symbolic of female vulnerability, whereas others
remain fearful of retaliatory violence. The full article can be found
here http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/azp078
Book launch:
Editorships
Professor Monica Boyd elected as chair of the International Migration Section, ASA. In 2010-2011 faculty member, Monica Boyd, will serve as the chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociology Association, the first Canadian scholar to be elected to that position. The section has over 600 members and it is one of the largest sections in the ASA. Monica has just completed her terms as President of the Canadian Sociological Association (2008-2009) and as President, the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada (2007-2009).