Youth today are engaging in civic-oriented activities in ways that differ from previous generations. Civic engagement refers to volunteerism and service-oriented activities and programs that expand community, ground social networks, help people, and make civil society possible. We find from this study that Canadian Arab youth give considerable service back to their communities, especially within the communities of their own cultural milieu, but also significantly within their wider Canadian municipalities, and that, on balance, they have higher rates of engagement than the wider Canadian youth population. In this paper, we problematize and substantiate many arguments about ethnic minority youth political participation through an analysis of the local community-care activism and civic engagement of Canadian Arab youth.
To assess a possible explanation for persistent gender inequalities in engineering, this study examines gender differences in recent Bachelor of Engineering graduates’ intention to look for another engineering job three years after graduation. Applying organizational commitment theories, we examined gender differences in job and family characteristics, and feelings of these graduates towards their jobs to understand what underlying factors make these graduates look for a job with another employer. Based on logistic regression analyses of the National Graduates Survey 2013 (Statistics Canada, 2013), we found no statistically significant gender differences in intentions to leave. This indicates that job commitment is unlikely to be the reason for women’s underrepresentation in the occupation. However, women are more likely to look for a job with another employer when they feel overqualified for the work they are doing, are supervising someone at a job, are a visible minority, or when they have children. Moreover, significantly more visible minority men than white men are looking for a new job. These results have implications for the existing retention initiatives for women and visible minority engineers in Canada
Book Review of Rank, Mark Robert, Lawrence M. Eppard, and Heather E. Bullock, Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty.
Taking a reproductive justice approach to understanding student needs, I explore student experiences of an on-campus crisis pregnancy centre (CPC), drawing on data from a small mixed methods study. Participants contacting the CPC sought testing, counselling, and referral to abortion; instead, they encoun-tered religious, anti-choice messages, and were left distressed and with delayed access to health care. These findings underscore the imperative that campuses provide accessible sexual and reproductive health services while simultaneously limiting campus access to anti-choice organizations.
Book Review of Jackson, Gabrielle, Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women and What We Can Do About It.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to manage the pandemic have had numerous collateral consequences for social life across the globe. As people and organizations are adapting to the new normal, sociologists have been eager to appreciate the social implications of these transformations. This special issue examines how the pandemic and pandemic management has altered criminal justice institutions and shaped the lives of people navigating the criminal justice system. In this brief introductory article, we draw attention to the collateral consequences of the pandemic and pandemic management on criminal justice institutions, clients, and actors in Canada and introduce the work of the four sets of authors in this collection. We discuss the four articles in chronological order related to the institutions of justice, starting with bail and courts, moving to prison experiences, and concluding with a discussion of parole.
Book Review of Huey, Laura, Jennifer L. Schulenberg, and Jacek Koziarski, Policing Mental Health: Public Safety and Crime Prevention in Canada.
Book Review of Kendall, Mikki, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot.
In a mixed methods study, I investigated student experiences of an on-campus crisis pregnancy centre. Participants sought testing, counselling, and referral to abortion and instead encountered religious, anti-choice messages. Taking a reproductive justice approach to understanding student needs, I argue that the study’s findings underscore the imperative that campuses provide accessible sexual and reproductive health services while simultaneously limiting campus access to anti-choice organizations.
This study examines discrimination in the workplace in Canada and explores the intersection of marginalized groups. It uses data from the General Social Survey 2016, which collected information from 19,609 non-institutionalized individuals. Results show that 17 percent of the job applicants and 9 percent of the workers felt discriminated against in the workplace during the 12 months before the survey. Data analysis indicates that a person’s identification with two marginalized groups increases the chances of discrimination and augments it further with three marginalized identities. However, the incremental effect of four or more marginalized groups is difficult to examine with this dataset due to the depleting sample size with the inclusion of every new group. Results from the logistic regression illustrate that the intersection of two, three, or four selected disadvantaged groups increases workplace discrimination significantly, thus supporting the theory of intersectionality. However, this perspective does not work for some combinations of marginalized groups.
Symbolic interactionism continues to be criticized from both inside and outside of interactionist circles by those who claim that the perspective does not address issues of social structure and fails to recognize constraints on human agency. In this paper, we critically address these claims and defend Blumerian symbolic interactionism from three versions of the charge of astructural bias and demonstrate how the perspective accounts for social structural forces. In doing so, we make reference to the classical roots of the perspective. We conclude with an illustrative and didactic example that demonstrates how even the most micro-oriented of interactionist research can still take account of social structural issues.
Cet article analyse la manière dont les processus de désinstitutionnalisation et d’individualisation ont transformé les schémas symboliques reliant femmes et institution familiale durant les dernières décennies en Espagne et les répercussions de ces mutations sur la vie quotidienne. Nous mettons en regard la vie des « fonctionnaires domestiques » (Durkheim) durant le franquisme avec le discours actuel de femmes sur la gestion du temps quotidien. Ces transformations s’observent notamment dans la nécessité nouvelle de faire face, au-delà des problèmes de conciliation, à l’épreuve familiale, épreuve qui naît de la tension entre l’obligation morale envers autrui et la fidélité à soi-même. Postulant que cette épreuve est vécue de manière extrême par les femmes à la tête de familles monoparentales, nous étudions le quotidien de ces dernières et les stratégies permettant d’y faire face.
Cet article vise à contribuer à une meilleure connaissance théorique et empirique de l’expérience subjective de la discrimination systémique. L’approche adoptée relie l’acte discriminatoire, lui-même singulier et situé, au cadre sociétal qui le rend efficace. En retenant le cas de la population québécoise d’origine latino-américaine, on analyse les réponses d’environ un millier de ses membres afin d’observer les liens entre la victimisation et le bien-être subjectif, ainsi que les différentes façons dont ils se représentent comme cibles potentielles de discrimination, en tenant compte des différences dans les stéréotypes auto-rapportés par les femmes et les hommes. Les résultats de l’analyse montrent, entre autres, que les personnes ayant expérimenté de la discrimination affichent des niveaux de satisfaction moins élevés dans les variables liées au statut social subjectif. L’expérience subjective de la discrimination est associée au sentiment d’étrangéité ressenti, au bilan personnel du parcours migratoire et à la perception qu’a l’individu de sa position dans la société.
