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    Dying Professions: Exploring Emotion Management Among Doctors and Funeral Directors 

    Ryan, Molly (2017-04)
    There are few more emotive experiences in life than death. Drawing on Arlie Hochschild’s concept of emotional labour, this study compares the emotional responsibilities of two groups of death professionals: doctors and ...
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    Picturing Halifax: Young Immigrant Women and the Social Construction of Urban Space 

    England, Sarah F (2017-04)
    This study explores the social construction of space in the lives of young immigrant women. Drawing upon data from photo-elicitation interviews, I analyze how young women who recently immigrated to Canada interpret and ...
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    Friendship Through the Ages: A Technological Perspective 

    Edwards, Brooke (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 ...
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    Childless or Childfree? Women’s Narratives of Ambivalence and Identity 

    McCutcheon, Tess (2017-04)
    The childlessness discourse is overpowered by biomedical interventions of infertility, while ambivalence is overlooked. This study aims to vocalize this overlooked perspective by focusing on the identity narratives of seven ...
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    “We’re More Than Just The Guys With The Keys”: The Professional Identity of Campus Security at an Atlantic Canadian University 

    Howe, Matthew (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 ...
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    Risk and Responsibility: Insider and Outsider Media Representations of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak 

    Humphries, Brittany (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 ...
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    “We are not ghosts in waiting”: How atheists cope with death 

    Karrel, Miriam (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 ...
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    Underlying Deception in Parent-Child Relationships 

    Correia, Justine (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 ...
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    Smudging and Concrete: Indigenous Traditional Ways in the City of Halifax 

    Martin, Shawn (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 ...
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    Power, Discipline, and Dis/comfort: Indigenizing University Curricula 

    Auster-Weiss, Shannon (2017-04)
    Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its Calls to Action in 2015, Canadian universities have emphasized the importance of inclusivity and diversity and set strategic goals to incorporate Indigenous perspectives ...
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