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Competing Demands in Times of Crisis: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Graduate Student Mothers
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This thesis explores how the lives of graduate student mothers at the University of Alberta changed during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, I interviewed 19 graduate student mothers from various programs using a maximum variation...
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Crime and deviance in heterogeneous societies: the impact of the imposition of western norms on the aboriginal peoples of Canada and Zimbabwe
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Explains aboriginal criminality through the application of general criminogenesis theories, and compares both societies' definitions and responses to deviation. Examines proposals for legal system reform.
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Fall 2014
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is, simply, the conscientious and judicious use of medical research (“evidence”) in clinical practice (Sackett et al. 2000:1). EBM emerged as a solution to various identified uncertainties in clinical practice as a programme for intervention at the level of...
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Governing Metis Indigeneity: The Settler-Colonial Dispossession and Regulation of the Metis in Mid-Twentieth Century Manitoba
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Bringing together the fields of Critical Indigenous Studies, settler-colonial studies, and governmentality studies, this dissertation seeks to methodologically trace the dispossession of Metis from lands in Manitoba throughout the mid-twentieth century by placing these dispossessions into the...
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Spring 2011
This thesis focuses on a temporally-limited “slice” of the Introductory Sociology course as one way into thinking about how the discipline of sociology is constituted by the same kind of social relations it studies. Invitations to sociology are conceptualized using Goffman’s interactionist theory...
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Fall 2014
This dissertation interrogates the concept of ‘leaderless resistance.’ Traditionally defined as a strategy that allows for and encourages individuals or small cells to carry out acts of violence or sabotage entirely independent of any hierarchy of leadership or network of support, leaderless...
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Spring 2017
For sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), the ‘sacred’ constitutes all those things “set apart and forbidden.” Sacred items or ideas are set in relationship to other sacred things within religious contexts. For Evangelical Christians, and to a lesser degree Protestants in general, the sacred...
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Navigating Protective Custody Classification: Examining the Lived Experiences of PC Inmates
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Classification systems in prisons have consequences in both formal and informal ways for inmates. Protective custody (PC) units are especially unique spaces in which traditionally the most vilified populations – informally often referred to as “skinners, rats, and scaredy cats” – have been...