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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 ...
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 ...
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’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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...