Browsing Sociology and Legal Studies by Subject "Sociology"
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Active and Marginal Religious Affiliates in Canada: Describing the Difference and the Difference it Makes
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-19)In 2002, Reginald Bibby surprisingly asserted that a renaissance of religion is, or soon will be taking place in Canada. However, the assertion clashes with the dominant belief based largely on Bibby’s accumulated data ... -
Alternative Solutions to Traditional Problems: Contextualizing the Kitchener John School Diversion Program
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)This thesis is an exploratory study of the Kitchener John School Diversion Program. As a primarily community-based initiative, this program has been developed in response to a particular social problem, street prostitution. ... -
An Analysis of the Initial Contact Characteristics and Recidivism of Offenders with a Serious Mental Illness
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)This thesis addresses the growing number of inmates with a mental illness in correctional facilities in Canada which continues to attract public attention and concern. Several explanations have been put forward to explain ... -
Attitudes Toward Homosexuality: American and Canadian Patterns, 1981-2000
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-23)Previous research has determined that Canadians often exhibit more tolerant attitudes toward homosexuality than Americans, yet few studies have attempted to uncover why this pattern persists. Using World Values Surveys ... -
A Behind-the-Scenes Examination of the Kitchener Mental Health Court: The Diversion of Persons with Mental Disorders
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)In this thesis I investigate how the Canadian criminal justice system handles persons with mental disorders who come into conflict with the law. Through an in-depth examination of the Kitchener Mental Health Court this ... -
Cemeteries & the Control of Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2006)There has been a substantial change in cemetery administration over the last century. Where once cemeteries were predominantly run by religious organizations, now they are mostly run by local municipalities. This ... -
Changes in Canadian Identity Attitudes Over a Twenty Year Period: 1981-2001
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)This project examines attitude change between 1981 and 2001 for a population of young, well educated Canadians, employing evaluation, potency and activity (EPA) semantic differential ratings of approximately 800 social ... -
Chasing Leisure: A Hermeneutic of Late Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-29)This dissertation addresses shortcomings in the sociological study of leisure through providing a new conceptual approach for understanding human action and meaning making. It reformulates leisure as the leisure imaginary, ... -
City Life, Anxiety and the Problem of the Neighbour: A Theoretical Exploration of the Grey Zone
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)This thesis is a theoretical exploration of the problem of the neighbour as an encounter with the Grey Zone. I look at various materials that can be formulated as expressions of the anxiety over the unknown that can come ... -
Community-Based Programming for Women in Conflict with the Law: The Perceptions of Staff and Volunteers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-11)There is a marked absence in the Canadian literature about what types of programs and programming characteristics are available to women in conflict with the law when they return to the community after a period of ... -
The costs of bonding: negotiating personal information disclosure among Millennials and Boomers on Facebook
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Since early 2010, Facebook.com, the world’s most popular social network site (SNS), has come under a storm of media criticism over the commercial use of its users’ personal information. Yet even as more became known about ... -
Court convictions of a Canadian birth cohort
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)Although youth crime and young offenders have attracted a significant amount of ongoing research attention and have given rise to a voluminous amount of literature devoted to describing and explaining their existence and ... -
Cultural Competency in Hospice Care: A Case Study of Hospice Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-18)The population demographics of the greater Toronto Area are rapidly changing, with visible minorities comprising 43% of the GTA, and 10% of the total adult population of Canada. It is incumbent upon the health care sector ... -
Culturally Competent Health Promotion as a Social Inclusion Mechanism: A Study of Ontario Community-Based AIDS Service Organizations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-19)Ontario is a culturally diversified society. Its population composition has changed drastically in the past few decades to include large numbers of individuals with cultural norms differing from that of the majority. This ... -
Dance Competitions and Recitals as Collectively Accomplished Events: An Ethnographic Study of Amateur Dance
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)This thesis presents a qualitative analysis of organized amateur dance participation as an example of human group life. Organized amateur dance typically occurs within a studio or school setting and is differentiated from ... -
Dealing Drugs: Careers of Involvement, Subcultural Life-worlds, and Marketplace Exchanges
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)This thesis is an ethnography of drug dealers. Working from a Chicago School Symbolic Interactionist approach (Mead, 1934; Blumer, 1969), nineteen interviews were conducted with current and former drug dealers. I inquired ... -
Defining the Ideal Applicant: Examining patrol officer perspectives on police organizational recruitment standards
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-16)Previous research has examined the psychological, psychophysical, and physical traits of police officers and police recruits, however little is known about individuals who aspire or intend to become a police officer. By ... -
"Depression Is A Medical Condition": Exploring the Medicalization of Depression on SSRI Websites
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-30)ABSTRACT “DEPRESSION IS A MEDICAL CONDITION”: EXPLORING THE MEDICALIZATION OF DEPRESSION ON SSRI WEBSITES Sociologists of medicine have become increasingly interested in mental health over the last two decades ... -
Dissonant Child: Grassroots Interfaith in a Multicultural Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)While Canada's increasing ethnic and racial diversity have received a great deal of attention in recent years, the pluralization of its religious makeup has been largely ignored. As a result, political and societal responses ... -
The Economic Integration of Recent Immigrants to Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dimensions of Employment Success
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-22)The employment success of immigrants to Canada has been a primary focus of sociological research on immigrant integration. However, much of this research has examined the concept of “employment success” solely in terms ...