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Sharing meals, making meanings: Foodways among 2nd and 1.5 generation immigrants
(2024-05)Second- and 1.5-generation immigrants must negotiate multiple cultures: the culture(s) of their parents, and the dominant culture where they are born. Foodways play a critical role in the construction of cultural identity, ... -
SMALL TOWN POLICING AND THE COMMUNITY-BASED POLICING MOVEMENT
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 1997)In this paper, we intend to explore the ideological construction of the concepts Small Town Policing (STP), police professionalism and Community-based Policing. Although CBP may have originated as a reformed urban model ... -
Small-town, Professional, and Community-based Policing: Reformative and Strategic Rhetoric
(2012)In this article, we explore the ideological construction of the concepts Small Town Policing, police Professionalism, and Community-based Policing (CBP). Professional policing responded to the major deficiencies of Small ... -
Smudging and Concrete: Indigenous Traditional Ways in the City of Halifax
(2013-04)In spite of the increasing importance of urban-Indigenous (urban-Aboriginal) issues in Canada, very little is known about these topics in relation to Atlantic Canadian urban centers. Urban-Indigenous peoples are the fastest ... -
Sober Sociability: How non-drinking students navigate outside the norm
(2023-05)Drinking culture on campuses has been written about for decades, and drinking students see drinking culture as a means of forming and maintaining friendships, socializing in large groups and vital in their university ... -
Socio-demographic Survey of Police Officers Serving in Aboriginal Communities
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Spending Right? Precariat Students’ Experience of Student Loans
(2015-06-01)Drawing on the concepts of “habitus” (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1990), “stigma management,” (Goffman, 1963) and “moral boundaries” (Sayer, 2005) which feature strongly in the existing literature on working-class students, this ... -
Staying Connected: Life Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2021-04)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about lockdowns and public health guidelines and left Canadians to grapple with the changes it inflicted on their daily lives. With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 a great deal of ... -
Straight Until Proven Queer: Exploring Young Queer Attitudes Towards Coming Out
(2022-04)Much has been said about the coming out process in sociological literature — including varying characterizations of the process and varying claims about the significance of the process. This study aims to uncover how young ... -
A Strategic Plan for Justice Programming in Elsipogtog
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The Summary Advice Counsel Initiative: Assessing its Implementation, Impact and Future Directions in Two Nova Scotia Urban Areass
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2006-07-17)This evaluation has been directed at carrying out an assessment of the Summary Advice Counsel (SAC) initiative in the Family Court Division of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The summary advice counsel provides summary ... -
Tapping into Mental Health: Exploring Indigenous Water and Mental Health Issues through Canadian Media
(2017-04)It seems both unjust and ironic that the first peoples on the land now known as Canada are some of the last to obtain access to their fundamental human rights. This research explores the occurrence of relationship, region, ... -
“They Want Me to Play F*cking Bingo!”: The Social Lives of Young at Heart Seniors
(2022-04)There are many sociological studies concerned with the social lives of senior citizens who fit the traditional aging norms of society. In comparison, the social experiences of “young at heart” seniors are relatively absent ... -
Trend or Treatment? Stigma, Social Challenges, and the Burdens of Managing Celiac Disease
(2024-05)Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease estimated to affect about 1% of the global population (Biesiekierski et al., 2014). It is managed only through strict lifelong adherence to a gluten free diet. However, this diet ... -
Underlying Deception in Parent-Child Relationships
(2015-04)My research takes the relational role of lying as understood by sociologist Georg Simmel (1950) as the starting point for my qualitative study on lying in parent-child/child-parent relationships. Simmel (1950) argues that ... -
The Unrepresented Defendant and the Unbundling of Legal Services
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2004-11)This project has been focused on contributing to an appreciation of the unrepresented defendant phenomenon in Halifax provincial criminal court and to the examination of possible solutions, including the strategy of a more ... -
VICTIMS AND OFFENDERS: AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIANS AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
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Violence and public safety in the Halifax Regional Municipality
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“We are not ghosts in waiting”: How atheists cope with death
(2015-06-01)Death is not only experienced on a personal and psychological level, but it is also experienced as a rift in social life. Robert Hertz (1960) found that funerals, burials, and mourning made death the “object of a collective ... -
“We’re More Than Just The Guys With The Keys”: The Professional Identity of Campus Security at an Atlantic Canadian University
(2015-06-08)Currently there is little research on in-house campus security. Thus far literature has only looked at campus police and non-campus security organizations. This ethnography explores the professional identity and role of ...