Sociology & Social Studies

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Sociology is the systematic study and analysis of the social relationships, patterns of behavior and experiences that characterize and make up human society. The sociological approach differs not so much in what it studies, but in how it views or approaches human social behavior. It could be said that sociology is more a way of thinking than it is an established and accepted body of concepts and theories. Sociologists tend to assume that human behavior can only properly be understood in the context of larger social and historical structures and processes. Humans are understood to be the "products" of social structures; however these social structures are in turn understood as the outcome of human social action.

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    Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Final Report
    (University of Regina, Sociology and Social Studies, 2021-12) Hanson, Cindy; Jaffe, Joann; Varley, Emma; Alhassan, Jacob; Tanaka, Momo; Krajewski, Maegan; Nkhata, Tamikani Jessie; Wastasecoot, Brenda; Acker-Verney, Julianne
    This knowledge synthesis (KS) project explored how remote and rural (RR) places face a complex array of social, political and economic obstacles in their access to sustainable, accessible, and appropriate transportation, and in exercising mobility rights. Growing vulnerability and inequality between these places contribute to growing vulnerabilities and inequalities among RR residents and the rest of Canada. The pattern of, and access to, public transportation in Canada, reflects the history of natural resource development and seldom considers the effects of the lack of transportation on health and welfare, human capabilities, education, climate change, and sustainable development. Mobility, however, shapes the conditions and lived experiences of gender, poverty, disabilities, and older-age; it either restricts or enables citizen participation.