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Cary Wu

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Department of Sociology

Associate Professor
York Research Chair

Office: Vari Hall, 2148
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 22825
Email: carywu@yorku.ca
Primary website: Cary Wu
Secondary website: Google Scholar

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Degrees

PhD, University of British Columbia

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Community Contributions

International Editorial Board Member-Ethnic and Racial Studies

COVID-19 Social Impacts Network Expert Advisory Committee

Research Interests

Sociology , Health, Trust, Political Sociology of Health, Inequality, Research Methods
  • York Research Leader Award - 2021-2022
  • Canadian Sociological Association Early Investigator Award - 2022-2023
  • Dean's Award for Distinction in Research - 2022-2023
Book Chapters

Publication
Year

Cary Wu. 2022. "Categorical inequality in trust." Reading Sociology (4th edition) Unsettling a Settler Colonial Project & Re/writing Sociological Narratives. Oxford University Press.

2021

Terry Clark and Cary Wu. 2021. "Urbanization theorizing." Abrutyn, Seth and Omar Lizardo, eds. Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory. New York: Springer.

2020

Wilkes, Rima, and Cary Wu. "Trust and minority groups." The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust (2018): 231.

2017

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

Wu, Cary, and Ichiro Kawachi. 2024. A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing. Social Science & Medicine: 117371.

2024

Wu, Cary, and Andrew Dawson. 2024. The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada. Public Opinion Quarterly 88: 781-813.

2024

Wu, Cary, Patricia Louie, Alex Bierman, and Scott Schieman. 2023. Assessment of sociodemographics and inflation-related stress in the US. JAMA Network Open 6 (5): e2313431-e2313431.

2023

Wu, Cary. 2022. How Anti-Asian Racism is Experienced. Contexts, 21(3), 48-51.

2022

Wu, Cary. Intergenerational Transmission of Trust: A Dyadic Approach. Socius, 8, 23780231221076994.

2022

Wu, Cary, Rima Wilkes, and David C. Wilson. 2022. Race & Political Trust: Justice as a Unifying Influence on Political Trust. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 151(4), 177-199.

2022

Wu, Cary. 2022. Racial concentration and dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination in the United States. Social Science & Medicine-Population Health, 19, 101198.

2022

Wu, Cary, Alex Bierman, and Scott Schieman. 2022. Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19. Social Science Research, 102750.

2022

Wu, Cary, and Andrew Dawson. 2022. Why is trust lower in Quebec? A cultural explanation. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 59(3), 309-329.

2022

Wu, Cary. 2021. How stable is generalized trust? Internal migration and the stability of trust among Canadians. Social Indicators Research, 153:129-147.

2021

Sher, Chloe, and Cary Wu. 2021. Who Stays Physically Active during COVID-19? Inequality and Exercise Patterns in the United States. Socius 7: 2378023120987710.

2021

Wu, Cary, Yue Qian, and Rima Wilkes. 2020. Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during COVID-19. Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-17.

2020

Wu, Cary. 2020. Does migration affect trust? Internal migration and the stability of trust among Americans. The Sociological Quarterly.

2020

Wu, Cary, and Zhilei Shi. 2020. Education and social trust in transitional China. Chinese Sociological Review 52(2): 115-143.

2020

Wu, Cary. 2020. How does gun violence affect Americans’ trust in each other? Social Science Research, 91, 1-15.

2020

Wu, Cary. 2020. Social capital and COVID-19: a multidimensional and multilevel approach. Chinese Sociological Review: 1-28.

2020

Wu, Cary, Rima Wilkes, Malcolm Fairbrother, and Giuseppe Giordano. 2020. Social capital, trust, and state coronavirus testing. Contexts.

2020

Wu, Cary, Sylvia Fuller, Zhilei Shi, and Rima Wilkes. 2020. The gender gap in commenting: Women are less likely than men to comment on (men’s) published research. PloS One 15(4): e0230043.

2020

Wu, Cary, Rima Wilkes, Daniel Silver, and Terry Nichols Clark. "Current debates in urban theory from a scale perspective: Introducing a scenes approach." Urban Studies 56, no. 8 (2019): 1487-1497.

2019

Wilkes, Rima, and Cary Wu. "Immigration, Discrimination and Trust: A Simply Complex Relationship." Frontiers in Sociology 4 (2019): 32.

2019

Wu, Cary, Qiang Fu, Jiaxin Gu, and Zhilei Shi. "Does migration pay off? Returnees, family background, and self-employment in rural China." China Review 18, no. 1 (2018): 59-78.

2018

Wilkes, Rima, and Cary Wu. "Ethnicity, democracy, trust: A majority-minority approach." Social Forces 97, no. 1 (2018): 465-494

2018

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "Finding critical trusters: A response pattern model of political trust." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 59, no. 2 (2018): 110-138.

2018

Sher, Chloe, and Cary Wu. "Fracking in China: Community impacts and public support of shale gas development." Journal of Contemporary China 27, no. 112 (2018): 626-641.

2018

Fu, Qiang, Cary Wu, Heqing Liu, Zhilei Shi, and Jiaxin Gu. "Live like mosquitoes: Hukou, rural–urban disparity, and depression." Chinese Journal of Sociology 4, no. 1 (2018): 56-78.

2018

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "Local–national political trust patterns: Why China is an exception." International Political Science Review 39, no. 4 (2018): 436-454.

2018

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "International students’ post-graduation migration plans and the search for home." Geoforum 80 (2017): 123-132.

2017

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "Durable power and generalized trust in everyday social exchange." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 11 (2016): E1417-E1417.

2016

Wu, Cary. "Moving from Urban Sociology to the Sociology of the City." The American Sociologist 47, no. 1 (2016): 102-114.

2016


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall 2024 AP/SOCI3030 3.0 A Social Statistics I LECT
Fall/Winter 2024 GS/SOCI6112 6.0 A Quantitative Analysis SEMR


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2025 AP/SOCI3030 3.0 M Social Statistics I LECT
Fall/Winter 2024 GS/SOCI6112 6.0 A Quantitative Analysis SEMR

Degrees

PhD, University of British Columbia

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Community Contributions

International Editorial Board Member-Ethnic and Racial Studies

COVID-19 Social Impacts Network Expert Advisory Committee

Research Interests

Sociology , Health, Trust, Political Sociology of Health, Inequality, Research Methods

Awards

  • York Research Leader Award - 2021-2022
  • Canadian Sociological Association Early Investigator Award - 2022-2023
  • Dean's Award for Distinction in Research - 2022-2023

All Publications


Book Chapters

Publication
Year

Cary Wu. 2022. "Categorical inequality in trust." Reading Sociology (4th edition) Unsettling a Settler Colonial Project & Re/writing Sociological Narratives. Oxford University Press.

2021

Terry Clark and Cary Wu. 2021. "Urbanization theorizing." Abrutyn, Seth and Omar Lizardo, eds. Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory. New York: Springer.

2020

Wilkes, Rima, and Cary Wu. "Trust and minority groups." The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust (2018): 231.

2017

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

Wu, Cary, and Ichiro Kawachi. 2024. A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing. Social Science & Medicine: 117371.

2024

Wu, Cary, and Andrew Dawson. 2024. The Trump Effect? Right-Wing Populism and Distrust in Voting by Mail in Canada. Public Opinion Quarterly 88: 781-813.

2024

Wu, Cary, Patricia Louie, Alex Bierman, and Scott Schieman. 2023. Assessment of sociodemographics and inflation-related stress in the US. JAMA Network Open 6 (5): e2313431-e2313431.

2023

Wu, Cary. 2022. How Anti-Asian Racism is Experienced. Contexts, 21(3), 48-51.

2022

Wu, Cary. Intergenerational Transmission of Trust: A Dyadic Approach. Socius, 8, 23780231221076994.

2022

Wu, Cary, Rima Wilkes, and David C. Wilson. 2022. Race & Political Trust: Justice as a Unifying Influence on Political Trust. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 151(4), 177-199.

2022

Wu, Cary. 2022. Racial concentration and dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination in the United States. Social Science & Medicine-Population Health, 19, 101198.

2022

Wu, Cary, Alex Bierman, and Scott Schieman. 2022. Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19. Social Science Research, 102750.

2022

Wu, Cary, and Andrew Dawson. 2022. Why is trust lower in Quebec? A cultural explanation. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 59(3), 309-329.

2022

Wu, Cary. 2021. How stable is generalized trust? Internal migration and the stability of trust among Canadians. Social Indicators Research, 153:129-147.

2021

Sher, Chloe, and Cary Wu. 2021. Who Stays Physically Active during COVID-19? Inequality and Exercise Patterns in the United States. Socius 7: 2378023120987710.

2021

Wu, Cary, Yue Qian, and Rima Wilkes. 2020. Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during COVID-19. Ethnic and Racial Studies: 1-17.

2020

Wu, Cary. 2020. Does migration affect trust? Internal migration and the stability of trust among Americans. The Sociological Quarterly.

2020

Wu, Cary, and Zhilei Shi. 2020. Education and social trust in transitional China. Chinese Sociological Review 52(2): 115-143.

2020

Wu, Cary. 2020. How does gun violence affect Americans’ trust in each other? Social Science Research, 91, 1-15.

2020

Wu, Cary. 2020. Social capital and COVID-19: a multidimensional and multilevel approach. Chinese Sociological Review: 1-28.

2020

Wu, Cary, Rima Wilkes, Malcolm Fairbrother, and Giuseppe Giordano. 2020. Social capital, trust, and state coronavirus testing. Contexts.

2020

Wu, Cary, Sylvia Fuller, Zhilei Shi, and Rima Wilkes. 2020. The gender gap in commenting: Women are less likely than men to comment on (men’s) published research. PloS One 15(4): e0230043.

2020

Wu, Cary, Rima Wilkes, Daniel Silver, and Terry Nichols Clark. "Current debates in urban theory from a scale perspective: Introducing a scenes approach." Urban Studies 56, no. 8 (2019): 1487-1497.

2019

Wilkes, Rima, and Cary Wu. "Immigration, Discrimination and Trust: A Simply Complex Relationship." Frontiers in Sociology 4 (2019): 32.

2019

Wu, Cary, Qiang Fu, Jiaxin Gu, and Zhilei Shi. "Does migration pay off? Returnees, family background, and self-employment in rural China." China Review 18, no. 1 (2018): 59-78.

2018

Wilkes, Rima, and Cary Wu. "Ethnicity, democracy, trust: A majority-minority approach." Social Forces 97, no. 1 (2018): 465-494

2018

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "Finding critical trusters: A response pattern model of political trust." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 59, no. 2 (2018): 110-138.

2018

Sher, Chloe, and Cary Wu. "Fracking in China: Community impacts and public support of shale gas development." Journal of Contemporary China 27, no. 112 (2018): 626-641.

2018

Fu, Qiang, Cary Wu, Heqing Liu, Zhilei Shi, and Jiaxin Gu. "Live like mosquitoes: Hukou, rural–urban disparity, and depression." Chinese Journal of Sociology 4, no. 1 (2018): 56-78.

2018

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "Local–national political trust patterns: Why China is an exception." International Political Science Review 39, no. 4 (2018): 436-454.

2018

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "International students’ post-graduation migration plans and the search for home." Geoforum 80 (2017): 123-132.

2017

Wu, Cary, and Rima Wilkes. "Durable power and generalized trust in everyday social exchange." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 11 (2016): E1417-E1417.

2016

Wu, Cary. "Moving from Urban Sociology to the Sociology of the City." The American Sociologist 47, no. 1 (2016): 102-114.

2016


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall 2024 AP/SOCI3030 3.0 A Social Statistics I LECT
Fall/Winter 2024 GS/SOCI6112 6.0 A Quantitative Analysis SEMR


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2025 AP/SOCI3030 3.0 M Social Statistics I LECT
Fall/Winter 2024 GS/SOCI6112 6.0 A Quantitative Analysis SEMR