{"title":"The Gay Parental Turn: Canadian Gay Fathers and the Reorganization of Care and Community","authors":"S. W. Underwood","doi":"10.1111/cars.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Community has long been key to the well-being of gay men, yet little research examines how gay fathers, specifically, relate to the broader LGBTQ+ community. Drawing on interviews with 18 mostly White, (upper-) middle-class Canadian gay fathers, I investigate their expectations and experiences of family and community, showing they describe ‘gay community’ in terms of gay ancestors, friends, and shared gay activities. Fathers express deep gratitude for past LGBTQ+ people whose interdependent collective struggle secured their rights to marry and parent. They hope for support from family and gay friends and strive to maintain community ties, but find their efforts complicated by the demands of intensive parenting, geographic distance, and limited childcare support. As children grow, fathers build community with the straight parents of their children's friends, demonstrating how social class, whiteness, and homonormativity shape the reorganisation of these Canadian gay fathers’ lives—a process I call the gay parental turn.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13051639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624716","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":"Affective Climate and Political Polarization: Identity, Ideology, and Support for Climate Policy","authors":"Emily Huddart, Tony Silva, Parker Muzzerall","doi":"10.1111/cars.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines affective climate polarization (ACP) and affective political polarization (APP) – emotional distance between supporters and opponents of decarbonization and political partisans, respectively. Analyzing original, representative Canadian survey data (<i>n</i> = 2503), we examine why people have differing levels of ACP and APP and the extent to which ACP and APP predict support for a carbon tax and beliefs about how decarbonization will affect jobs. The intensity of individuals’ support or opposition to decarbonization is the most important factor in predicting ACP. The strength of ideological alignment predicts APP among both liberals and conservatives, and, on the political right only, attitudes to decarbonization also explain variation in APP. Support for an industrial carbon tax and belief that decarbonization will increase jobs are related to political ideology and attitudes toward decarbonization more strongly than to either measure of affective polarization. These findings show that climate politics intensify partisan animosity, albeit in different ways on the political left and right.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13051641/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624739","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}
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Karen L. Robson, Alexandra Pulchny
{"title":"The Impact of “Ethics Creep” on Research, Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Survey of Canadian Researchers’ Experience with Research Ethics Boards","authors":"Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Karen L. Robson, Alexandra Pulchny","doi":"10.1111/cars.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Designed to protect the dignity of research subjects, there is limited data on <i>either</i> the effectiveness of Research Ethics Boards or on the scope of the unintended effects of REB processes on core university functions of research, teaching and learning. This article shares results from an online survey on unintended effects, disseminated to postsecondary faculty and students in Social Sciences and Humanities across Canada (<i>n</i> = 620). Key findings include: 78% of respondents report REB processes deter them from undertaking research at all, including minimal risk research, and the prospect of REB review shapes research projects, particularly relating to equity or vulnerable populations. Seventy percent of faculty avoid assigning students research assignments with human subjects because of REB concerns, and 58% have advised graduate students to avoid research with primary data. The authors advocate for robust use of Tri-Council powers to develop feasible reforms to promote research and limit ethics creep.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13051637/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624748","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":"Exploring Resilience Among Survivors of Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Canada","authors":"Cathy Holtmann, Mayme Lefurgey","doi":"10.1111/cars.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we explore survivor strategies for safety and the development of resilience in the context of domestic and intimate partner violence (D/IPV) experienced in rural Canada. Through the thematic analysis of 24 qualitative interviews, this paper identifies several ways that survivors sought safety on individual, relational, and community levels. Engaging a social ecological understanding of resilience, we highlight how the close-knit nature of rural cultures presents opportunities and challenges when seeking safety for survivors of D/IPV. The findings of this study inform broader academic and policy discourses on rural D/IPV as well as D/IPV service provision in rural communities by deepening an understanding of the unique strategies for safety of rural survivors and the role of informal support in their resilience as they navigate extreme forms of D/IPV in rural Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13033106/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147576250","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":"Far, Moderate or in Between? The Ties That Shape Canadian Right-Wing Youth Activism","authors":"Kayla Preston","doi":"10.1111/cars.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Canadian right-wing youth social movement actors are not a monolith. In this paper, I analyze 45 interviews and notes from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with a population of Canadian right-wing youth activists between 2023 and 2024. While these youth activists are part of the same right-wing organizations, some espouse far-right ideas, others are more moderately right-wing, and some are in between. For this sample of right-wing youth, differences lie in their experiences of peer and familial socialization. While far-right youth had strained peer and familial relationships, their moderate–right-wing peers had supportive families and experienced peer connections throughout the life course. Liminal right-wing participants disrupt this dichotomy as they have had a disconnection from family but have strong peer connections in the university setting as young adults. In this study, I highlight how familial and peer ties may play an important role in youths’ turn to the right in Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13006748/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147500732","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":"Changing Gender Relations in Canada: The Rise of Gender-Neutral Forenames","authors":"Neil Guppy, Kamila Kolpashnikova","doi":"10.1111/cars.70029","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Historically, gender-neutral or androgynous first names have been relatively rare, showing little sign of upward or downward temporal trend in Canada or elsewhere. Using digitized birth registration records from three provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario) and for all of Canada, we highlight a rise, beginning around 1990, in the proportional representation of gender-neutral forenames. Examples of such names include Avery, Charlie, and Riley. Our analyses show that different measures of androgynous names, from different provinces or for all of Canada, produce similar results, revealing a recent and unprecedented temporal rise. We frame a discussion of this acceleration within the context of changing gender relations in Canada. The weakening of gender as a dominant status characteristic, a historical decline in the effect of gender contamination on naming, and the increasing diversity of girls’ and boys’ first names all play roles in the recent rise of gender-neutral names in Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13001534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147488449","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":"Challenging Borders, Claiming Care: The Emotional Advocacy of Migrant Health Activists in Ontario","authors":"Sarah Marshall","doi":"10.1111/cars.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines how activists in Ontario, Canada, use de/bordering strategies to navigate healthcare access for individuals with precarious immigration status—an issue often overlooked in Canadian health and immigration policy debates. Drawing on interviews with 47 activists across health and community settings, this article, part of the broader project <i>Underground Patchworks of Access: Migrant Health Activism in Ontario and the Emotional Work of Storytelling and Deservingness</i>, focuses on the emotional dimensions of activists’ work. It argues that emotional experiences shape how activists engage in de/bordering and assess migrant deservingness. Building on Dimitriadis and Ambrosini's (2023) concept of de/bordering, the study shows that activists’ emotions are central not only to their strategies but also to how they construct ideas of deservingness. Using an interdisciplinary approach combining bordering, social movement, and feminist theories of affect, this article expands bordering scholarship by highlighting the emotional as well as the structural and legal factors guiding activist discretion and strategy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146183230","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":"Guy Rocher (1924–2025), Sociologist and Public Intellectual","authors":"Simon Langlois","doi":"10.1111/cars.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This in memoriam article highlights the contribution of Guy Rocher, who passed away in Montreal on September 3, 2025, at the age of 101. He was a brilliant intellectual and a man of action, dedicated and committed to promoting social justice. He was closely involved in numerous social changes inspired by his reformist perspective. He was an important pioneer who leaves a fundamental and precious legacy to sociology, to which he was so devoted. He was driven by the ethics of conviction and responsibility dear to Max Weber, an author whose importance in sociology he repeatedly emphasized. His book <i>Introduction to General Sociology</i>, translated into 12 languages, is a classic work. In <i>Talcott Parsons et la Sociologie Américaine</i> (1972), Rocher set himself the goal of making the American sociologist's thought known and synthesizing it in a clear and accessible manner, a work “clearer than those of Parsons himself” (A. Giddens). Canada and Quebec have lost a brilliant intellectual and a man of action, dedicated and committed to promoting social justice. Involved in numerous social changes inspired by his reformist perspective, Rocher was an important pioneer who leaves a fundamental and precious legacy to sociology.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969848","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":"Expanding the Methodological Repertoire in Institutional Ethnography: A Design Sociology Approach to Mapping and Visualizing Invisible Work","authors":"Anna Isaksson","doi":"10.1111/cars.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents a novel methodological approach in which institutional ethnography borrows from design sociology. Although mapping is a core component of institutional ethnography, previous research highlights opportunities to further develop mapping techniques as both an analytical tool and a means of presenting research findings. Design sociology is an emerging interdisciplinary field that merges sociological inquiry with design methodologies, offering creative tools for analyzing and visualizing complex social phenomena. The article builds on a project conducted in the elderly care sector, illustrating how design-based approaches can bring caregivers’ everyday experiences and invisible work to the forefront while revealing systemic challenges. Utilizing design sociology, the study broadens the methodological repertoire of institutional ethnography by introducing new strategies for analysis and communicating research findings. This interdisciplinary framework offers opportunities for mapping and visualizing how people's experiences and activities are structured by larger institutions and structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cars.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145656449","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":"Appropriating the “Soul”: Evolving Understandings in Canada and the United States","authors":"Dana Gaudette, Ryan T. Cragun, Lori G. Beaman","doi":"10.1111/cars.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cars.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Noting a disconnect in the percentage of Canadians and Americans who believe in a soul (75.37% and 84%, respectively) versus those who believe in an afterlife (47.64% and 57.04%), we explore the variables that are correlated with soul belief to better understand how people from these two countries may be conceptualizing the soul. Based on quota samples of just over 1000 individuals from each country, we find that religiosity is not a consistent predictor of believing in a soul, that Christians are more likely to believe in a soul than are those from other religions and the nonreligious, and that holding other supernatural beliefs (e.g., reincarnation, miracles, etc.) increases the odds of believing in a soul. But we also find that there are individuals in both countries who hold no supernatural beliefs yet report believing in a soul, which suggests that what is meant by “soul” is not exclusively supernatural but rather that the term “soul” is evolving in light of changing and declining religiosity in both countries.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51649,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie","volume":"63 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145642580","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}