Sociology and Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Exploring Euphoria: Delineations of Raving Morality, Collective Effervescence, and Therapeutic Culture in the Halifax Rave Scene
(2024-05)Increasing commercialization of the underground rave scene has led to a decline in so-called “authentic” raves around the world, and an increase in licensed bar and festival-based EDM events, which do not share the same ... -
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, ... -
Parenting and Working: Parents Working as Doctors Returning from Parental Leave
(2024-05)There is an abundance of research on maternity leave in terms of economic impacts, gendered impacts, and health but there is less research on qualitative experiences of returning from leave and navigating a career while ... -
Contemporary Apparitions: Ghost Stories as Personal Narratives
(2024-05)Storytelling, an integral part of the human experience, encompasses a diverse range of narratives, with ghost stories standing out as a near-universal phenomenon. While anthropologists and folklorists have long been ... -
Settling on Nova Scotia: Exploring the Meaning of Home after Relocating During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2024-05)Since 2016, Nova Scotia has experienced an upswing in migration to the province after decades of out-migration. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated this phenomenon, with an estimated population growth of over 20,000 people ... -
The Gag City Grammar Police: Language and Algorithmic Community on Stan Twitter
(2024-05)Barbz are a group of fans who have formed an online community devoted to Nicki Minaj. Known broadly as a ‘stan’ group, they form speech communities on Twitter/X and present as a closed group despite remaining public. Taking ... -
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 ... -
“I Feel Bad for People Who Don’t Have a Chronic Illness:” Refusing Deviance and Reframing Illness Through Summer Camp
(2024-05)Scholarship in medical anthropology has a history of characterizing chronic illness as a “deviant” condition. Emerging research problematizes this paradigm, however, and demands its reconsideration. The growing recognition ... -
The Harana Singers of Nova Scotia: Transnationalism, cultural identity, and collective music-making in a Filipino choir
(2023-05)The Harana Singers of Nova Scotia is a choir of mostly Filipinos, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Many studies have been conducted on Filipino migration and occupation (Gardiner Barber, 2008; Reyes, 2005), but little research ... -
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 ... -
Connecting Through Faith: An Analysis of Dalhousie and Kings Religious Societies
(2023-05)In Canadian society today, there is a growing problem of university dropouts and deteriorating mental health conditions in university students with a leading cause being loneliness. This qualitative sociological study ... -
“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 ... -
Missing the Bus, Missing School: Does Mode of Transportation Affect Educational Engagement Among High School Students in the HRM?
(2022-04)Whether it is time spent sitting in traffic on the way home from work, flying to visit distant family, or simply driving aimlessly with friends, our lives are greatly impacted by mobility. This study, guided by literature ... -
Framing the Social Reality of COVID-19
(2022-04)Beyond the health crisis itself, the COVID-19 pandemic has also given rise to a crisis of information, as public health authorities around the world scramble to control the flow of information about the evolving science ... -
Bunching Violets: An exploration into Queer Femmes' construction of identity and belonging
(2022-04)This research seeks to broaden the dialogue surrounding queer presentation, identity construction and femininity. Specifically, I look at what it takes to externalize identity within a queer context, and how femmes subvert ... -
Forming Characters: How Reading Shapes Us
(2022-04)This research project seeks to address a gap in reading research – the experience of the solitary reader. Through a literature review and 10 qualitative interviews with students at Dalhousie University and University of ... -
Putting the 'Cult' in 'Subculture': Investigating Group Identity Development Among Incels
(2022-04)In this study, I analyze the group identity development of incels. Incels are a group of men who gather in online spaces to vent frustrations about feminism and an inability to attract a romantic partner. The theoretical ... -
Carving in and “Carving Out” Space: Gender in the Halifax Skateboarding Subculture
(2022-04)Skateboarding was made without rules, confinement, or regulation; it is a subculture (Beal, 1996) with an ideology that counters normative authority and, more specifically, standards of masculinity. Yet skateboarding ... -
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 ... -
Eco-Anxiety: Exploring Existential Threats and Ontological Security among University Students
(2022-04)The physical and mental health consequences of climate change are, and will be, an extremely important issue in the anthropology of climate change. Already, we are seeing countless examples of the effects of climate ...