A L Sinikka DixonDr. Sinikka Dixon is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual Sociologist with a passion for the human story. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California in 1982, with specializations in Urban Sociology, Social Inequality, and Social Psychlogy.

Dr. Dixon is fascinated by multiculturalism. Living in and travelling in many countries she has experienced first-hand, cultures in Africa, Australia, Brazil, Europe, Indonesia, North and Central America, Philippines, and Suriname. As a member of Canadian, American and International Sociological Associations, she has presented papers at many Sociological Congresses. Her language abilities give her direct access to original sources in Finnish, Swedish, German, Dutch and English.

Born in 1936 in Turku, Finland, into a geographically mobile family taught her early the meaning of inequality and cultural dislocation. She became a participant observer of social relationships, seeking to understand why people treat each other the way they do on the basis of age, gender, culture, race and religion.

Having a first career in secretarial science and motherhood, as many of her generation did, she re-entered the "education life cycle," majoring in sociology and had a long academic teaching career. She retired as Professor Emerita of Sociology in 2008, with her husband to Prince Edward Island, Canada. Read More Read Less