Virtual-CSA

(RAE2) Anti-Asian Racism in Canada: Pandemics, Geopolitics and Social Change

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Tuesday Jun 18 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
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Since the global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, assaults on individuals of Asian descent have increased in Canada and other western countries. This has led to the alarming resurgence of ... more

(RES2) Relational Sociology II

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Friday Jun 21 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
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The word ‘radical’ has the same Latin root as ‘radish’ and refers to roots. Radical relationism ‘goes to the root’ in two ways: by reconceptualizing all fixed, fast-frozen “things” as ... more

(RUS2) Sustaining Rural Futures

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Friday Jun 21 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
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Rural communities are simultaneously on the front lines of myriad significant societal changes and left behind by or left out of many others. This session invited papers that consider how ... more

(SCL1) The question(s) of “x-topias”: possible ways for the future and/or sociology?

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Wednesday Jun 19 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
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Sociology has always attempted to establish a space of order, a set of commonplaces, or a framework of experience that present themselves as the acceptable, ordinary, statistically average, normal, and ... more

(SCL2) Neglected Aspects of the Civil Sphere in Cultural Sociology: Testing the Extensions and Limits of a Concept

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Wednesday Jun 19 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
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Civil sphere has become a central theme in cultural sociology, mainly due to Jeffrey Alexander’s efforts at situating it as the core of political activities in a societal perspective (... more