Patrick John Burnett

University of British Columbia | UBC · Department of Sociology

The preliminary descriptive information collected from this study represents one component of the data collected for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded Team Grant entitled ‘Contexts of Vulnerabilities, Resiliencies and Care among People in the Sex Industry’. The Team Grant involved five independent, yet interdependent, studies of the...

Working paper considering the ways in which concepts of time and space have been employed in classical and contemporary sociological theory.

Study looks at the importance of time in giving sex workers control when negotiating transactions with clients. The authors also reflect on the likely negative outcomes of the new legal provisions in Canada for both sex workers and clients that will widen the net of criminal sanctions to include everyone who purchases or communicates in order to ob...

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion exhibits a substantialist approach to the agency-structure dichotomy. From a substantialist point of view, both individual agency and social structure come preformed and subsequently relate to and influence one another, starkly positioning the choices made by individuals against the structured sets of opportu...

Many health scholars find that Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice leaves too little room for individual agency. We contend that, by virtue of its relational, field-theoretic underpinnings, the idea of leaving room for agency in Bourdieu's theory of practice is misguided. With agency manifested in interactions and social structures consisting of r...

This dissertation employs a mixed methods strategy consisting of layered multiple correspondence analyses and thematic analyses of open-ended content from 852 completed online surveys to investigate factors that shape the practices of people who pay for sexual services in Canada. It describes 12 substantively unique classifications of clients whose...

Amid growing numbers of doctoral graduates entering an increasingly competitive global academic job market, concerns about equity in the hiring process and the value of the Canadian Ph.D. are mounting. Grounded within the historical context of the Canadianization Movement, we examine the doctoral credentials of 4,934 U15 social science faculty betw...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12416/abstract Much of what we know about the safe sex practices of people who pay for sexual services (clients) remains firmly grounded in empirical and interpretive tendencies to overemphasise the causal link between social, cultural, and individual characteristics and sexual decision making....

Note: This thesis has been published as two journal articles: 1) A relational approach to health practices: towards transcending the agency-structure divide (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12105/full) 2) Margins of freedom: a field-theoretic approach to class-based health dispositions and practices (http://onlinelibrary.wile...