John McKendy Associate Professor, Sociology  BA (St. FX), MA, PhD (Toronto) email: jmckendy@stu.ca 306 Edmund Casey Hall Phone:  506-452-0507 Fax: 506-450-9615

"'I'm very careful about that': narrative and agency of men in prison", Discourse & Society,17,. 4, 2006, 473-502. [abstract]

"Dialogue and the Risk of Responsibility", Humanity & Society, 23, 3, August, 1999, 238-253. [abstract]

"Transforming Power for Peace: Reflections on The Alternatives to Violence Project", The Ecumenist, 36, 1, January-February, 1999, 2-5 [abridged version reprinted in Transforming Alternatives, 9, 1, Spring, 2000, 5-7.]

"The Class Politics of Domestic Violence", Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, XXIV, 3, September, 1997, 135-155. [abstract]

"Ideological Practices and the Management of Emotions: The Case of Wife Abusers", Critical Sociology, 19 (2), 1992, 61-80. [abstract]

Research Interests:

Social Inequality and Social Justice, Gender and Social Class, Sociology of Emotions, Violence and Social Structure, Narrative Analysis, Institutional Ethnography.

Course outlines and homepages:

• Sociology 1006J, Introduction to Sociology, part of the "Justice & Globalization" section of the Aquinas Program
• Sociology 1006T, Introduction to Sociology, part of the "Truth in Society" section of the Aquinas Program
• Sociology 2416A, Inequality in Society, which has a service learning requirement
• Sociology 3013A, Classical Sociological Theory
• Sociology 3023A, Modern Sociological Theory
• Sociology 3963, Discourse  & Society
  
• Sociology 4013C, Senior Seminar: "Investigating Ideological Practices"

WWW people.stu.ca/~jmckendy