Volume 1, 2023-2024

Welcome to the first volume of Sociological Imaginations!

For Volume 1, Sociology professors selected papers for publication for various reasons. Each work is an example of excellence. Each paper is well-written. Each demonstrates deep and critical thinking. They are creative pieces. Some take the mundane aspects of our lives and expose their strangeness. Many reveal important connections for understanding through their use of a “sociological imagination,” a concept coined in 1959 by American Sociologists C. Wright Mills, and the name of this journal. Using this imagination, students’ works show the relationships between an individual experience and the social and historical context in which we live. We think that such works should be shared so that we might learn from thinking together.

Using sociological imaginations, Runté examines disability and exclusion, Makowsky explores complexities of gender as a “doing,” Day Rider offers a Blackfoot Woman’s Manifesto, Tharle gives insight into the gendered treatment of pain in medicine, McMurray elaborates the concept of “crip time,” and Lenton explores gender, labour and weddings in film.

Thank you to Ava Carter whose editorial work on the first volume of Sociological Imaginations was exceptional.