Sociology
The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto consists of three undergraduate departments, located on the downtown campus (St. George), the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM), and the University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC), as well as a graduate department that brings together faculty from all three campuses, and is located at St. George
On this website you can find faculty contact information, employment listings and course information for the Sociology Undergraduate Program at the St. George Campus and the Graduate Programs.
News & Events
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Robert Andersen as Chair of the Department of Sociology for a five year term, effective July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017.
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Robert Andersen as Chair of the Department of Sociology for a five year term, effective July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017.
The Department would also like to thank Professor Blair Wheaton for his dedication, leadership and service to the Department and the Faculty of Arts and Science.
John Myles Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the Katholieke Universiteit de Leuven
Professor John Myles was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leuven (Belgium) on Feb.2 in recognition of his life’s work on the politics of old age security policy. Professor Myles is the Canada Research Chair in the Social Foundations of Public Policy at the University of Toronto where he is also Professor of Sociology and of Public Policy and Governance. The citation acknowledges Myles’ theoretical and empirical contributions to the comparative politics of old age security in western democracies, for which he also received a Distinguished Scholar award from the American Sociological Association in 1991. The citation goes on to note his influential contributions to the European Union debate on the normative and distributional challenges faced by aging societies in the 21st century.
Myles is widely recognized for his Canadian research on old age and child poverty and of family income inequality, much of it conducted as a Senior Visiting Scholar at Statistics Canada since 1986. In 1994, he received the Innis Award for "best book" in Canadian social science from the Canadian Social Science Federation for his comparative study of class and gender relations. He is currently completing a volume with Keith Banting on the politics of income distribution in Canada.
He began his career at Carleton University and moved to Florida State University in 1992 where he was named Distinguished Research Professor in 1998. In 2001, he accepted a position as Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. In 2004, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.