Barbara Hanson
Professor
Email: hansonbg@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California. She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999.
Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California and University of San Francisco . She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999.
Professor Hanson has also been the Editor in Chief of International Review of Modern Sociology, and International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Her main research interests are in theory, methods, Meta-theory, epistemology, health, intimate relations, law, fat studies, religion, and gender.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of TorontoM.A., Carleton University
B.A., Western University
LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School
Member of the Bar of Ontario, Law Society of Upper Canada
Research Interests
What Holism Can Do for Social Theory. New York: Routledge. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought (ISBN 978-0-415-74390-7 hbk or 978-1-315-81333-2 e-book).
Hanson, B. The Research Process: Creating Facticity. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc., 1999. (ISBN:1-57766-065-X)
Hanson, B. Social Assumptions, Medical Categories, Supplement 1: Advances in Medical Sociology, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press Inc., 1997. Cloth (ISBN: 0-7623-0243-7)
Hanson, B. General Systems Theory Beginning with Wholes, Washington: Taylor & Francis.
“Social Constructions of Fatness: Legal Proceedings in Canada as a Case in Point. (Published online April 19, 2018) Disability and Society. United Kingdom. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2018.1456405.
“Objectivities: Constructivist Roots of Positivism”, Quality and Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Volume 49, Issue 2 (2015), Page 857-865. Electronic version: published in 2014 available at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11135-014-0027-6. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-014-0027-6
“An Implicit Religious Reflex to Mechanism and a Holistic Alternative: Social Theory as Case in Point” Implicit Religion Vol 18 (1), 45-62. (print) ISSN 1463- 9955, (online) ISSN 1743-1697, doi:10.1558/imre.v18i1.20766.
"Towards a Model of Contextual Emotional Dynamics of Illness: Senile Dementia versus Cancer as a Case in Point" International Review of Modern Sociology 36 (1): 53-73
“Whither Qualitative /Quantitative? : Grounds for Methodological Convergence." Quality and Quantity, 42: 97-111.
“Uneasy Ground: Mutual Drive Right of Ways as Growing Urban Concern” 49 Real Property Reports 239.
“Dog-Focused Law’s Impact on Disability Rights: Ontario’s Pit Bull Legislation as a Case in Point” 12 Animal Law Review.
“Science, Religion and Social Theory” Theory and Science, 17(1): 1-14
“Questioning the Construction of Maternal Age as a Fertility Problem” Health Care for Women International, 24: 166-176.
“Systems Theory and the Spirit of Feminism: Grounds for a Connection” Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 545-556, 1-12.
Hanson, B. 1997 "Who's Seeing Whom?: General Systems Theory and Constructivist Implications for Senile Dementia Intervention," Journal of Aging Studies (USA), 11(1):15-25.
Hanson, B. 1996 "The Intimate Politics of Sense: Symptoms versus Problems in Senile Dementia," International Review of Modern Sociology (USA/INDIA), 26(1 Spring): 1-13.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2021 | AP/SOCI2040 6.0 | A | Sociological Theory | ONLN |
Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California. She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999.
Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California and University of San Francisco . She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999.
Professor Hanson has also been the Editor in Chief of International Review of Modern Sociology, and International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Her main research interests are in theory, methods, Meta-theory, epistemology, health, intimate relations, law, fat studies, religion, and gender.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of TorontoM.A., Carleton University
B.A., Western University
LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School
Member of the Bar of Ontario, Law Society of Upper Canada
Research Interests
All Publications
What Holism Can Do for Social Theory. New York: Routledge. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought (ISBN 978-0-415-74390-7 hbk or 978-1-315-81333-2 e-book).
Hanson, B. The Research Process: Creating Facticity. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc., 1999. (ISBN:1-57766-065-X)
Hanson, B. Social Assumptions, Medical Categories, Supplement 1: Advances in Medical Sociology, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press Inc., 1997. Cloth (ISBN: 0-7623-0243-7)
Hanson, B. General Systems Theory Beginning with Wholes, Washington: Taylor & Francis.
“Social Constructions of Fatness: Legal Proceedings in Canada as a Case in Point. (Published online April 19, 2018) Disability and Society. United Kingdom. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2018.1456405.
“Objectivities: Constructivist Roots of Positivism”, Quality and Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Volume 49, Issue 2 (2015), Page 857-865. Electronic version: published in 2014 available at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11135-014-0027-6. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-014-0027-6
“An Implicit Religious Reflex to Mechanism and a Holistic Alternative: Social Theory as Case in Point” Implicit Religion Vol 18 (1), 45-62. (print) ISSN 1463- 9955, (online) ISSN 1743-1697, doi:10.1558/imre.v18i1.20766.
"Towards a Model of Contextual Emotional Dynamics of Illness: Senile Dementia versus Cancer as a Case in Point" International Review of Modern Sociology 36 (1): 53-73
“Whither Qualitative /Quantitative? : Grounds for Methodological Convergence." Quality and Quantity, 42: 97-111.
“Uneasy Ground: Mutual Drive Right of Ways as Growing Urban Concern” 49 Real Property Reports 239.
“Dog-Focused Law’s Impact on Disability Rights: Ontario’s Pit Bull Legislation as a Case in Point” 12 Animal Law Review.
“Science, Religion and Social Theory” Theory and Science, 17(1): 1-14
“Questioning the Construction of Maternal Age as a Fertility Problem” Health Care for Women International, 24: 166-176.
“Systems Theory and the Spirit of Feminism: Grounds for a Connection” Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 545-556, 1-12.
Hanson, B. 1997 "Who's Seeing Whom?: General Systems Theory and Constructivist Implications for Senile Dementia Intervention," Journal of Aging Studies (USA), 11(1):15-25.
Hanson, B. 1996 "The Intimate Politics of Sense: Symptoms versus Problems in Senile Dementia," International Review of Modern Sociology (USA/INDIA), 26(1 Spring): 1-13.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2021 | AP/SOCI2040 6.0 | A | Sociological Theory | ONLN |
