Sociology and Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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A Strategic Plan for Justice Programming in Elsipogtog
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Elsipogtog Justice: Future Directions (Part 1)
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2005-12) -
Review of Justice System Issues Relevant to Nunavut: Part One
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 1999-01)This report on Justice Issues in Nunavut was commissioned by the Department of Justice and had the mandate of "providing an annotated review of all relevant literature and an issues framework" through "a comprehensive ... -
Review of Justice System Issues Relevant to Nunavut: Part Two
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 1999-01) -
Violence and public safety in the Halifax Regional Municipality
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2008-04) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Nova Scotian Roots: Teaching Cultural Imperialism through Music Education
(2015)The colonial history of Nova Scotia is a complex web of power, violence, and displacement that is often not acknowledged at an institutional level. The impact of this history has left a permanent imprint on the social and ... -
Grounded or ‘Shaky’: How Mobilizations of Expert Knowledge Affect Legal Outcomes in Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases
(2014-04)This project examines how expert witnesses affect legal outcomes in shaken baby syndrome (SBS) cases. The connection between shaking and intra-cranial injury in infants is heavily debated within the medical community. This ... -
“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 ... -
Risk and Responsibility: Insider and Outsider Media Representations of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
(2015-06-08)In the wake of global infectious disease outbreaks such as SARS, scholars have acknowledged the growing role of media during public health emergencies. Lacking, however, is a discussion on how media perspectives vary ... -
Contemporary Settler Colonialism: Media framing of Indigenous collective action in Elsipogtog, Mi’kma’ki
(2015-06-01)Contemporary settler colonialism depends on resource development, and is supported by the socially reproductive structure, media. I analyze a particular event that took place in Elsipogtog in the summer of 2013, where ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
Competing Against Stereotypes: The Female Athlete Experience
(2015-05-29)This study examines the experiences of female varsity athletes related to gender stereotypes in the realm of sports. Dominant literature within the discipline of sports sociology recognizes the early distinction between ... -
Power and Resistance: Navigating Boundaries of Talk and Silence in the Part-Time Workplace
(2015-05-29)This project explores power dynamics in the part-time workplace and their relation to the creation of boundaries of acceptability of talk, especially about workplace concerns. After a review of literature on ignorance, ... -
Who Cares About Feminism? Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Feminist Theory
(2015-05-29)Feminism appears to be in limbo. With aims of the first, second and third waves of the feminist movement having been achieved, young adults are unsure what feminism stands for or refrain from identifying with the label ... -
RU OK? Determining the Effects of Parenting through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in First Year University
(2015-05-29)In recent academic discourse and pop culture, the “helicopter parent” has created some controversy. The majority of the discourse regarding this type of childrearing argues that these parenting techniques may interfere ... -
Got Balls? Examining the Association between Sports Fandom and Hegemonic Masculinity
(2015-05-29)This research explores the role of the Big 4 sports leagues (NBA: National Basketball Association, MLB: Major League Baseball, NHL: National Hockey League and NFL: National Football League) in the reproduction of hegemonic ... -
Community Perceptions of Mainline Needle Exchange: A Qualitative Study
(2015-05-29)Community resistance to syringe exchange programs (SEPs) across Canada and the United States and severely limits the efficacy of SEPs as a harm reduction strategy. Based on interviews with residents and community leaders ...