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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 ...
The Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program: Assessment of Current Status and Future Directions
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2015-09)
The Nova Scotia Restorative Justice (NSRJ) program for young offenders began in November 1999 at four regional sites after almost two years of intensive consultation and preparatory planning. The program expanded in 2001 ...
Moving on to the University: An Assessment the Dalhousie Restorative Justice Pilot Project
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2015-10)
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...