Sociology and Social Anthropology Honours Theses: Recent submissions
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Friendship Through the Ages: A Technological Perspective
(2017-04)Friendship is a socially constructed phenomenon that is part of the everyday lives of human beings. Its practices have been researched for many years by sociologists and social anthropologists. The use of digital communication ... -
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, ... -
“More traumatic and humiliating than assault itself”: Exploring students’ perceptions of Dalhousie University’s management of sexual assault issues
(2017-04)Sexual assault on university campuses remains a pervasive issue, with Dalhousie University being no exception. It has been argued that universities regularly fail their victims of sexual assault as they do not adequately ... -
On Thin Ice: Examining Youth Hockey Participation in Canada
(2017-04)Picture your local community, and chances are you will see two things: a hockey arena and an outdoor rink. Many Canadian children of all backgrounds play hockey. It is the quintessential Canadian sport, and yet previous ... -
Connecting Anonymously: How Recovery is Represented Online
(2016-04)This study explores how an online forum is used in recovery from addictive substance use. By doing a content analysis of the forum REDDITORSINRECOVERY, online supports were found to be helpful in providing a space to ... -
“Oh, he’s gay!” The Perception of Gay Men of their Portrayal in Television and Film
(2016-04)Currently, there is little research on the perception of gay men of their portrayals on television and in film. Thus far, literature on such portrayals on the small and silver screens has taken a general survey of men ... -
Food Acculturation Pattern of International students in Halifax
(2016-04)International students experience lots of food related challenges when they migrate from their home country to a new country. One such food related challenge international students in Halifax experience is dietary changes, ... -
Married to the Military: Employment Prospects for Civilian Female Spouses
(2016-04)The vast majority of research on the impact of military has considered the experiences of service members during and after their service. However, the impact of military lifestyle on civilian spousal employment is a ... -
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 ...