Marisa Young, Nicole McNair, Gabriella Christopher, Loa Gordon
{"title":"Pandemic Shadows: Unmasking Gender Disparities in Academic Productivity and Work-Family Conflict.","authors":"Marisa Young, Nicole McNair, Gabriella Christopher, Loa Gordon","doi":"10.1111/cars.70038","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women academics experience inequalities across multiple facets in the university context, including research productivity; teaching, advising and mentoring responsibilities; service workload; and cross-over stress between work and family obligations. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these gender disparities. Drawing upon 2021 data from 467 research faculty and staff at a lead research university in Canada, we highlight such inequalities. While descriptive statistics suggest that men and women report similar perceived setbacks in productivity due to COVID-19, results from structural equation models (SEM) estimating mediating associations tell a different story. These analyses demonstrate that women were disadvantaged compared to their male counterparts during the pandemic because of unequal exposure to work-family conflict, which strongly correlates with the perception of lost productivity. We further hypothesized that faculty and research staff with young children would perceive lowered productivity during the pandemic, and that these burdens would be stronger for women than men. However, we did not find evidence to support these predictions. We unpack these results and conclude our paper with a discussion about the importance of rethinking the operationalization of \"productivity\" in post-secondary institutions, given women's differential exposure and vulnerability to stressors during the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70038"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13172658/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147935294","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}
{"title":"Beyond Universities: Structural Stratification in Canadian Tertiary Education.","authors":"Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa","doi":"10.1111/cars.70027","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empirical analyses and theorizing of structural stratification in tertiary education have focused almost exclusively on universities. In doing so, such work ignores large swaths of the organizational field, including counterparts in the understudied community college, private career college, and theological sectors. Through this study, we re-examine structural stratification in Canadian tertiary education using a custom web-scraped dataset containing information on over 600 organizations spanning four distinct sectors. Using the social media followings of these organizations as a proxy for social status, we overcome hurdles that have historically prevented cross-sectoral analyses of structural stratification in this field. Using these data, we make multiple novel empirical observations. First, stratification in the private career college sector exceeds that detected anywhere else in this field. Second, observed levels of stratification among community colleges and universities are virtually indistinguishable. Third, structural stratification is most muted in the theological sector. We explore and theorize potential mechanisms that could be driving these trends, including mission drift, sector straddling, exposure to market forces and embeddedness in localized communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70027"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13077266/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147677261","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}
{"title":"Weaponized Virtue: Teachers' Kabayanihan (Heroism) as a Form of Ideological Control and the Normalization of Systemic Neglect in Philippine Education.","authors":"Louie Giray","doi":"10.1111/cars.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I examine how the teacher-as-hero trope, rooted in the Filipino concept of bayani, functions as a weaponized virtue. Although kabayanihan (heroism) traditionally signifies collective service to the bayan (community), it now operates as cultural hegemony, reframing systemic neglect as personal virtue and depoliticizing chronic underfunding and exploitative labour. Through neoliberal critique and structural violence frameworks, I trace how heroic narratives normalize invisible labour, intensify emotional demands, and sustain burnout as an institutional outcome rather than an individual failing. Political elites benefit most from this trope; they substitute symbolic praise for material investment and evading accountability for structural failures. I do not dispute teachers' dedication; I call instead for dismantling the ideological structures that convert admiration into exploitation. Genuine educational reform requires fair labour conditions and a shift from the hero trope to structural justice, a lesson relevant across the Global South.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70036"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147823542","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":"Le caractère changeant ce la race en contexte migratoire: « À Montréal je ne suis pas considérée comme une personne blanche. Au Brésil, oui. ».","authors":"Barbara Andrade de Sousa, Line Chamberland","doi":"10.1111/cars.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article draws on the analysis of semi-structured interviews to compare the immigration experiences of queer individuals from the Global North with those of their counterparts from the Global South. It examines the process of racialization experienced by some of these individuals upon arrival in Quebec/Canada, the transformation of this process when it had already been experienced in the country of origin, and the continued social recognition as white people for others. The article then examines the impacts of these processes on the construction of these immigrants' life stories in the host society, particularly in relation to their social class. It also demonstrates that the privilege enjoyed by individuals socially recognized as white manifests itself in the absence of challenges related to racialization in their life trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70030"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13071208/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147678233","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}
{"title":"Paranormal Beliefs in Canada.","authors":"Tony Silva, Emily Huddart","doi":"10.1111/cars.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There has been no nationally representative examination of paranormal beliefs in Canada for over two decades, even though Canada has undergone major social shifts in that time, such as greater secularization, which could affect the prevalence of paranormal beliefs. This research note analyzes a nationally representative sample of Canadians to determine the prevalence of paranormal beliefs, identifies which sociodemographic factors are related to these beliefs, and determines which variables are most substantively important for explaining variance in paranormal beliefs. Overall, a little under half of Canadians, 44.8 percent, believe in at least one paranormal phenomenon, and another 31.3 percent do not believe in any but report neutrality about at least one. Only a little under a quarter, 23.8 percent, firmly do not believe in any paranormal phenomena. Respondents were most likely to believe in ghostly hauntings and least likely to believe in several Canadian cryptids, or undiscovered creatures. Gender, education, sexual identity, age, and religion-related variables were all associated with paranormal beliefs. Follow-up analyses showed that religious identity and how religious a participant considered themselves to be explained the most variance in the models. Overall, paranormal beliefs are common in Canada, and religion remains important for understanding phenomena such as non-scientific beliefs.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70037"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13139805/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147846036","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}
{"title":"Assessing the Link Between Homeownership and Health in Canada: Evidence From the 2021 Canadian Housing Survey.","authors":"Min Zhou","doi":"10.1111/cars.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study proposes a theoretical model that integrates important mediating and moderating effects to explain whether and how homeownership is potentially linked to health in today's Canadian society. This integrative model examines (1) whether the link between homeownership and health is moderated by housing cost (especially housing unaffordability) and (2) whether the homeownership-health link can be explained by the three mechanisms represented by three satisfaction perceptions-housing satisfaction, community satisfaction and life satisfaction-that stress homeownership's material, social and symbolic values, respectively. Guided by the theoretical model, the analyses of the 2021 Canadian Housing Survey data generate important insights. First, there is clear evidence that homeownership is significantly related to better health in Canada and that this link is not diminished by unaffordability. Second, homeownership is not directly linked with health, and the revealed link can be attributed to the three mechanisms. These underlying mechanisms, supported by empirical evidence, can explain how homeownership is related to better health and shed light on how housing inequality may translate into health disparity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70041"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13172663/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147935285","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}
{"title":"Does the Name Still Matter? A Longitudinal Correspondence Study of Hiring Discrimination by Ethnicity and Gender in a Nordic Labour Market.","authors":"Akhlaq Ahmad","doi":"10.1111/cars.70040","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines changes in labour-market discrimination against second-generation immigrants in Finland over an 8-year period, focusing on five groups. It draws on two large-scale field experiments conducted in 2016 and 2024, in which 10,000 matched applications were sent to 2000 vacancies across five sectors. The findings show a nuanced shift in employer attitudes, reflecting both progress and persistence in discrimination. Discrimination against non-European applicants has declined significantly, while bias towards European-origin candidates shows no improvement. Non-European men have seen a greater reduction in employer reluctance, while male disadvantage among European-origin candidates has remained stable. Despite these improvements, results from both periods highlight enduring structural biases, with immigrant applicants continuing to receive fewer callbacks than their Finnish counterparts. The findings underscore that achieving a fair labour market remains a long-term generational challenge rather than a quick policy fix, and provide support for ethnic hierarchies and social distance thesis, and the subordinate male target hypothesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":"e70040"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13172650/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147935352","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}
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