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SOCI 5115

Advanced Seminar in Selected Sociological Topics

0.5 credits · Graduate

Winter 2025

Readings

  • Required: Individualism, by Steven Lukes. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0954796662. (RRP: )
  • Required: Liquid Modernity, by Zygmunt Bauman. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2000. ISBN: 978
  • Required: 0745624099. (RRP: )
  • Required: The Malaise of Modernity, by Charles Taylor. Concord: Anansi, 1991. ISBN: 978-0887845208. (RRP: )
  • Required: The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization (2nd ed.), by Anthony Elliott and Charles Lamert. New York: Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 978-0415560702. (RRP: )
  • Required: Additionally, there is also a recommended research and writing handbook:
  • Required: Making Sense in the Social Sciences: A Student's Guide to Research and Writing (8th ed), by Margot Northey et al. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-0190164355. (RRP: )
  • “The Society of Individuals”, by Norbert Elias (
  • “The End of Neighbours”, by Brian Bethune (
Winter 2025

Topics

  • Section 5 Criticisms of settler colonialism in Canada (Note – participants
  • expected to find most readings for this section by themselves)
  • Simpson, Audra. 2016. "Whither Settler Colonialism?". Settler Colonial Studies
  • Fung, A. 2021. "Is Settler Colonialism Just Another Study of Whiteness?". Canadian
  • Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques Au Canada 53:115-31
  • Petray, Theresa. 2012. "Can Theory Disempower? Making Space for Agency in Theories
  • of Indigenous Issues." in Theorising Indigenous Sociology: Australian
  • Perspectives. , edited by D. Howard-Wagner, D. Habibis and T. Petray. Sydney
  • Australia: University of Sydney e-Press
  • process?” Canadian Geographies-Geographies Canadiennes

Readings

  • McGuire Patricia, D. 2012. "Indigenous Spaces in Sociology." in Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspecitives, edited by L. Tepperman and A. Kalyta. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • Martino, N. (2021). ""It should be equal across the board": how treaty opposition among hunters and anglers upholds settler colonialism in Canada." Ethnic and Racial Studies 44(15): 2752-2771.
  • Behrendt, M. C. (2022) "Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities." Sociology Compass e13019 1-38.
  • Rodgers, K., & Scobie, W. (2024). “Unsettling Sociology Curriculum: Indigenous
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