{"title":"An Examination of Internet Use and Its Association With Gender Ideology Among Older Adults: Insights From China.","authors":"Xiangnan Chai, Zhaojin Lyu, Dexin Xu","doi":"10.1111/cars.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Internet use among older Chinese adults is widespread, but little is known about the correlation between internet use and the evolution of gender ideology among this demographic. Using nationally representative data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we found that young-old Chinese women aged 60-69 who are frequent internet users demonstrate a markedly elevated level of egalitarian gender ideology compared to those who use the internet less frequently. The length of online reading serves as a mediating factor that connects these two aspects. Furthermore, education plays a moderating role. For both young-old and middle-oldest women who have not received formal school education, there is a significant correlation between internet usage and an increase in their egalitarian gender ideology. Internet use has no significant relationship with older men's gender ideology. This paper recommends that local communities enhance internet infrastructure for older Chinese residents and provide requisite training to boost their internet literacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":"e70005"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accidental Flexibility: The Effects of COVID-19-Induced Remote Learning on Graduate Student Mothers.","authors":"Andrea DeKeseredy","doi":"10.1111/cars.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Graduate student mothers are in a unique position, balancing the competing roles of mother, student, and worker. The struggle to balance these roles often results in family-to-work conflict, an integral piece in maintaining gender inequality within universities and other similarly structured organizations. For a moment in time, the COVID-19 pandemic upended these organizations, changing the ways mothers performed their dueling roles through the removal of key resources and changes in flexibility. Using semi-structured interviews with 19 participants conducted throughout the fall and winter of 2022, this study explores how the lives of graduate student mothers were affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and shift to remote learning. For some, the pandemic negatively affected their progress due to a loss of resources and increased unpredictability. However, for others, the pandemic alleviated conflict between their dueling roles, allowing them to better manage their responsibilities regardless of interruptions in child care. The findings of this study contribute to a larger understanding of how organizational structure maintains inequality and how policies like remote work and child care may influence it.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":"e70004"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143598366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subsidized Housing: The Panacea to Canada's Housing Affordability Crisis?","authors":"Kate H Choi, Arabella Soave","doi":"10.1111/cars.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although increasing subsidized housing has been proposed as a solution to Canada's housing affordability crisis, few studies have investigated how access to subsidized housing affects the housing circumstances of Canadians. Using microdata from the 2021 Canadian Census, we compare children's odds of having unaffordable, overcrowded, and inadequate housing by residence in subsidized housing and family structure. For children in two-parent families, living in subsidized housing is associated with lower odds of having unaffordable housing but higher odds of having inadequate and overcrowded housing. For all others, living in subsidized housing is associated with lower odds of having unaffordable, inadequate, and overcrowded housing. Our findings underscore the importance of increasing subsidized housing, building units that can better meet the housing needs of those with housing vulnerability, and targeting those with the most unmet needs in alleviating Canada's housing affordability crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roland Azibo Balgah, Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo, Sirri Eunice Neba
{"title":"Do Conflicts Influence the Accumulation of Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital? Insights From Cameroon.","authors":"Roland Azibo Balgah, Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo, Sirri Eunice Neba","doi":"10.1111/cars.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social capital is known to influence livelihoods, but how this operates in conflict situations is relatively under-researched. Leaning on the social capital theory, we investigate the association between conflict and the dynamics of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in the neglected \"Anglophone\" conflict between a separatist movement and the government of Cameroon, which impacts livelihoods and social relations. Using data generated through mixed methods, the study explores Granovetter's concept on the strength of weak ties in a conflict context. Results reveal an overall negative causal link between conflict and social capital accumulation with significant changes in membership in social networks. Bonding social capital was comparatively less affected, while bridging and linking social capital were observed to have deteriorated. The argument is that degraded bridging and linking social capital are destructive of social relations and livelihoods, and linking social capital does not constitute strength in weak ties.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":"e70003"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racialized Narratives and Structural Exclusion: Exploring Media Discourses and Regulatory Practices on US Asian-Dominated Nail Salons.","authors":"Weile Zhou, Tianlong You, Zhaozhe Liang","doi":"10.1111/cars.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Racialized exclusion of Asian entrepreneurship and its communities, as part of the entrenched systemic racism in American society, has long been promulgated by the mainstream media and policymakers. Notably, nail salons, as an Asian-dominated multi-billion-dollar industry, reflect the confluence of media portrayals and policy structure of racialization. With the racial triangulation framework, we examined the news discourse of nail salons in New York (2015-2016) and California (2020-2022), and therefore, identified a four-step racialization of Asians that underlines media-regulation nexus, that is, Othering, Discriminating, Regulating, and Consolidating. Specifically, the general stereotypical portrayals of Asian Americans, for example, Model Minority and Yellow Peril, generate discriminatory images of certain Asian groups (e.g., business owners and immigrant workers) through covert language and frames, further motivating top-down regulatory measures that aggravate the economic and political burdens on the whole Asian community and thus solidifying the current racial dynamics. Altogether, this study heightens our sensitivity to the varied forms of (re)production of anti-Asian racism and underlines the legacy of White supremacy and colonialism in symbolic constructions and the legal regime.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tasteful Play: Christian Artists, Ambiguity and the Theo-politics of Taste.","authors":"Robin D Willey, Carolyn Jervis","doi":"10.1111/cars.12494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Émile Durkheim (1912) argues that art is an essential part of religious life-it 'refreshes a spirit worn down by all that is overburdening in day-to-day labor' (385). For Durkheim, making art in religious contexts is akin to sacred play. We explore how contemporary Christian artists use play, frivolity and experimentation to intentionally, and more often unintentionally, challenge, or at least, reveal various social and theo-political dynamics within their religious communities. We will explore some of the pressures artists face to 'fit in' to church environments, their encounters with various arbiters of 'taste', and the threat that artists pose to power structures in churches that have been traditionally derived through the interpretation of text. This work is part of a multi-sited ethnography that investigated the relationship between visual art and religious innovation in Canadian Christian communities, including 4 years of ethnographic observation and interviews in Alberta, Southern Ontario, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Femmes sans enfant par circonstance de la vie: partage d'experiences en ligne et production de Soi.","authors":"Laurence Charton","doi":"10.1111/cars.12493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The high social value placed on motherhood often means that childless women experience family and social stigmatization. Faced with this situation, some childless women join Internet discussion groups to share their experiences. Based on the testimonies of Quebec women who were involuntarily infertile, this article examines how online discussion groups enabled childless women to come together, support each other, denounce the forms of devaluation they suffered in the social and intimate spheres, and claim their specific role and place in their family and society. This article also demonstrates more broadly how participation in online discussion groups, as a place for exchange, sharing, and support, can transform how personal and family identity is constructed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking About Religion? Differences in Religious Socialization Among Recently Arrived Refugees Between Quebec and Other Provinces in Canada","authors":"Ka U. Ng, Thomas Soehl","doi":"10.1111/cars.12495","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.12495","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How does context shapes religious practices and religious expression of immigrants? Existing work has focussed on changes over the long term and across generations. We argue that context can shape religious practice shortly after arrival. Using a nationally representative survey of Syrian refugees with children who arrived between late 2015 and 2018, we examine how often parents talk to their children about religion, a central mechanism in religious socialization. We compare Quebec, which has become increasingly restrictive about public religious expression to other Canadian provinces, which are often upheld as exemplars of multicultural accommodation. Syrian refugees in Quebec, especially mothers, report significantly less frequent religious discussions with their children than those in other provinces, regardless of whether they are Christian or Muslim. This pattern is not explained by pre-migration religiosity or settlement selection, suggesting that Quebec's distinct socio-political environment shapes religious expression soon after arrival.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"62 1","pages":"20-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Why Do We Have to be Almost Dead to Qualify for Help?\": Criminal Legal and Protection System Responses to Intimate Partner Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada.","authors":"Julie Kaye, Alana Glecia","doi":"10.1111/cars.12492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analyzing 30 one-on-one qualitative interviews with Indigenous women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), this article provides a critical examination of responses to IPV by criminal legal and related systems of intervention, such as child and family services. More specifically, the article analyzes the voiced experiences of Indigenous women who sought support from systems designed to address IPV and gendered and sexualized violence. Grounded in Indigenous feminist thought and theories of settler colonial gendered violence, the study reveals that in the context of ongoing settler colonial gendered violence, Indigenous women survivors of IPV victimization in Canada were overwhelmingly met with revictimization and violence by the systems tasked with anti-violence intervention. The article considers decolonial approaches to responding to IPV against Indigenous women that foreground the strength and sovereignty of Indigenous women.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143016166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual violence, secrets, and work: Ruling relations of campus sexual violence policy","authors":"Lindsay Ostridge","doi":"10.1111/cars.12491","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.12491","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Campus sexual violence complaints involving students might seem easy to record and report, but university campuses in North America have a culture of secrecy and tend to focus on neoliberal approaches. In this paper, I trace the genealogy of a sexual violence policy from an unnamed university to argue that ruling relations make the current provincially mandated stand-alone sexual violence policies into a performative tool that silences expert knowledges, coordinates institutional practices towards a particular type of sexual violence prevention, and re-inforces a broader neoliberal logic in higher education. I explore my argument in the following three sections: the social organization of the policy and prevention campaign, the rules and regulations of the policy, and the neoliberalism of the current sexual violence discourse. As my analytical framework, I draw on Dorothy Smith's social ontology, which aims to investigate the practices and experiences of people by focusing on work and bodily existence as key points of reference. Drawing upon in-depth semi-structured interviews I conducted with fourteen participants (and one email exchange) at an unnamed Ontario university, I analyze how variously positioned people within an institutional structure negotiate relations of ruling in the specific context of campus sexual violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"62 1","pages":"34-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cars.12491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142958654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}