Browsing Sociology and Social Anthropology Honours Theses by Title
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Power, Discipline, and Dis/comfort: Indigenizing University Curricula
(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 ... -
Putting the 'Cult' in 'Subculture': Investigating Group Identity Development Among Incels
(2022-04)In this study, I analyze the group identity development of incels. Incels are a group of men who gather in online spaces to vent frustrations about feminism and an inability to attract a romantic partner. The theoretical ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Settling on Nova Scotia: Exploring the Meaning of Home after Relocating During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2024-05)Since 2016, Nova Scotia has experienced an upswing in migration to the province after decades of out-migration. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated this phenomenon, with an estimated population growth of over 20,000 people ... -
Sharing meals, making meanings: Foodways among 2nd and 1.5 generation immigrants
(2024-05)Second- and 1.5-generation immigrants must negotiate multiple cultures: the culture(s) of their parents, and the dominant culture where they are born. Foodways play a critical role in the construction of cultural identity, ... -
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 ... -
Sober Sociability: How non-drinking students navigate outside the norm
(2023-05)Drinking culture on campuses has been written about for decades, and drinking students see drinking culture as a means of forming and maintaining friendships, socializing in large groups and vital in their university ... -
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 ... -
Staying Connected: Life Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2021-04)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about lockdowns and public health guidelines and left Canadians to grapple with the changes it inflicted on their daily lives. With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 a great deal of ... -
Straight Until Proven Queer: Exploring Young Queer Attitudes Towards Coming Out
(2022-04)Much has been said about the coming out process in sociological literature — including varying characterizations of the process and varying claims about the significance of the process. This study aims to uncover how young ... -
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, ... -
“They Want Me to Play F*cking Bingo!”: The Social Lives of Young at Heart Seniors
(2022-04)There are many sociological studies concerned with the social lives of senior citizens who fit the traditional aging norms of society. In comparison, the social experiences of “young at heart” seniors are relatively absent ... -
Trend or Treatment? Stigma, Social Challenges, and the Burdens of Managing Celiac Disease
(2024-05)Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease estimated to affect about 1% of the global population (Biesiekierski et al., 2014). It is managed only through strict lifelong adherence to a gluten free diet. However, this diet ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
Young Adults and Their Parents: The (Mis)understandings That Define Mental Illness
(2021-04)Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, I explore and identify meanings of young adult mental illness that are constructed through the relationship between young adults and their parents. Thus far, research on mental ...