Howard Ramos, Professor

Chair, Sociology
PhD, Sociology, McGill University

Howard Ramos is a political sociologist who investigates issues of social justice and equity. He has published on social movements, human rights, Indigenous mobilization, environmental advocacy, ethnicity, race, and Atlantic Canada. He is currently working on projects looking at perceptions of environmental change, urban change, social movements, the integration of immigrants and refugees, and the social implication of new technology and new forms of data. He works with graduate students looking at these issues as well as state funding of organizations, public attitudes and social values, human rights, and the pursuit of justice.

Areas of Specialization

Selected Publications

• Staggenborg, Suzanne and Howard Ramos. 2023. Social Movements (4th edition). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
• Ramos, Howard, Lisa Kaida, *Diana Singh, *Paul Pritchard, and *Rocehlle Wijesingha. 2022. “The power of a simple index of neighbourhood change: Challenging the perception that there is no such thing as simplicity in creating indexes.” Canadian Geographer 66(2): 322-336. DOI: 10.1111/cag.12711
• Ramos, Howard and Patrick Bondy*. 2021. “From the Pond to the Jumbotron: Affordances of Hockey as a Multicultural and Social Space.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 53(3): 219-239.
• McLay, Rachel and Howard Ramos. 2021. “Do Polarization Narratives Apply to Politics on the Periphery? The case of Atlantic Canada.” Frontiers in Sociology.
• Grant, Jill, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos, eds. 2020. Changing Neighbourhoods: Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

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