• Studying with, without guarantees: reflections on the risks of taking learning from the classroom to the land 

  Granzow, Kara; Lenon, Suzanne; Kirbyson, Emily (Institute for Critical Education StudiesArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyDepartment of Women & Gender StudiesUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v11i5.186470, 2020)

  In this paper, we discuss an assignment we developed whose goal was to “unsettle” settler consciousness and critically foster a grounded politics of location amongst our postsecondary students. We analyze some of the ...
• Opening the book on academic librarians: an agenda for investigating gender and professional status in a feminized profession 

  Jacobs, Leona; Mellow, Muriel (Arts and ScienceLibraryDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)

  Librarians, as an occupational group, appear to have received surprisingly little attention from those who study work and gender. Like other feminized occupations, such as midwives and nurses, this group is of interest ...
• Do we really want to keep the gate threshold that high? 

  Brooks, Grace; Pras, Amandine; Elafros, Athena; Lockett, Monica (Arts and ScienceDepartment of MusicDepartment of SociologyCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT)McGill UniversityUniversity of LethbridgeSchool of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2020.0074, 2021)

  Drawing upon the survey instruments of Lewis and Neville [1], Nadal [2], and Yang and Carroll [3], we conducted an online survey that captured experiences of discrimination and microaggressions reported by 387 recording ...
• "The stories that will make a difference aren't the easy ones": outdoor recreation, the wilderness ideal, and complicating settler mobility 

  Laurendeau, Jason (Human KineticsArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0128, 2020)

  In this autoethnography, I read my history of and connection to outdoor culture, with an eye towards interrogating my complicity in historical and ongoing settler-colonial violence that has rendered my love of “the ...
• Obesity and its relation to employment incomes: does the bias in self-reported BMI matter? 

  Perks, Tom (University of AlbertaArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.25336/P6SS36, 2015)

  This study explores what difference, if any, the bias in self-reported body mass index (BMI) has on our understanding of the relationship between body size and income attainment. To accomplish this, aggregated data from ...
• Alice in demographyland: how it looks from the other side of the looking glass 

  McDaniel, Susan A. (Department of Sociology, University of AlbertaArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.25336/P6DS3S, 1992)

  In this paper, a glimpse of some of the challenges posed to academic women demographers is offered. As the title of the paper suggests, "Alice's" look from the other side of the looking glass may not be every woman's, but ...
• Why bother with organized religion?: a response to Joel Thiessen 

  Bibby, Reginald W. (WileyArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618X.2011.01282.x, 2012)
• Continuing the conversation on Canada: changing patterns of religious service attendance 

  Bibby, Reginald W. (WileyArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01596_1.x, 2011)

  David Eagle's article on changing patterns of religious service attendance appeared in the March 2011 issue of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He presented a comprehensive analysis of three data sets that ...
• Revisiting national security discourse in Turkey with a view to pacification: from military power to police power onto orchestration of labour power 

  Özcan, Gülden (Hacettepe UniversityArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://doi.org/10.17572/mj2014.1.3755, 2014)

  In this article, I try to analyse the neoliberal re-structuration in Turkey with a view to fabrication of official national security discourse and its adaption as common sense among productive classes. Acknowledging ...
• Classroom re-design to facilitate student learning: a case-study of changes to a university classroom. 

  Perks, Tom; Orr, Doug; Alomari, Elham (Indiana University. Faculty Academy on Excellence in TeachingArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridgehttps://dx.doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v16i1.19190, 2016)

  This case study examines the physical aspects of a particular university classroom, and what affect specific changes to the classroom had on the perceptions of students, instructors and observers regarding the room as an ...
• The GSA difference: LGBTQ and ally experiences in high schools with and without gay-straight alliances 

  Fetner, Tina; Elafros, Athena (MDPIArts and SciencesDepartment of SociologyMcMaster UniversityUniversity of Lethbridge, 2015)

  We examine the lived experiences of high-school students who participated in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-centered activism of some kind, highlighting the promise of gay-straight alliance groups ...
• [Review of "Rejoicing: Or the torments of religious speech" by Bruno Latour] 

  Ramp, William (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2014)

  Book review
• [Review of "Rethinking the political: the sacred, aesthetic politics, and the College de Sociologie" by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi] 

  Ramp, William; Durkheim, Emile, 1858-1917 (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2012)

  Book review
• The elementary forms as political (a)theology 

  Ramp, William (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2014)

  Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life examines a fundamental intercalation of selfhood, sociality and cosmology, but as a response to a particular political context, it may also speak to contemporary issues of ...
• [Review of "For Durkheim: essays in historical and cultural sociology" by Edward A. Tiryakian] 

  Ramp, William (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)

  Book review
• [Review of "Godless intellectuals: The intellectual pursuit of the sacred reinvented" by Alexander Tristan Riley] 

  Ramp, William (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)

  Book review
• Complicating food security: definitions, discourses, commitments 

  Ramp, William (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2014)

  Food security is now commonly seen as one of the defining global issues of the century, intertwined with population and consumption shifts, climate change, environmental degradation, water scarcity, and the geopolitics ...
• [Review of "The permanent tax revolt: how the property tax transformed American politics" by Isaac William Martin] 

  Harrison, Trevor W. (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008)

  Book review
• Libertarian populism, neoliberal rationality, and the mandatory long-form census: implications for sociology 

  Ramp, William; Harrison, Trevor W. (University of Alberta PressArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2012)

  This article argues the Canadian government’s decision in 2010 to eliminate the mandatory long-form census constitutes a mobilizing appeal to libertarian populism commensurate not only with neoliberal concepts of ...
• The global and the local: precautionary behaviors in the realms of crime, health, and home safety 

  Van Brunschot, Erin Gibbs; Laurendeau, Jason; Keown, Leslie-Anne (University of AlbertaArts and ScienceDepartment of SociologyUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009)

  Expressions of anxieties are examined in the realms of crime, health and home safety. We consider protective behaviours that individuals undertake in each of these realms as potential outlets for the expression of anxiety; ...

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