Sociology and Legal Studies: Recent submissions
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Squeezed In: The Intersecting Paradoxes of Care for Immigrant Informal Caregivers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)While the feasibility of maintaining informal care for older adults is a growing concern for many Canadians, support is not the same for everyone. The situation for immigrants is even more precarious because of their ... -
"It's Like All of Campus Life Inside a Little Classroom": How an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Program Operates within a University Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-03)English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are language programs designed to assist non-native speakers with their academic studies in English. These programs determine entry and exit into various stages of post-secondary ... -
Set Up For Failure? Understanding Probation Orders and Breaches of Probation for Youth in Conflict with the Law
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)This dissertation examines probation for young people in Canada. Ninety percent of all young people sentenced in Canada receive a non-custodial or community sentence, with probation accounting for the majority (91%) of ... -
Lone Mothers Exiting Social Assistance: Gender, Social Exclusion and Social Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-14)After the North American wave of “welfare reform” in the 1990s, much research has measured the success of the work-to-welfare model. Lone mothers as a group have proved a particularly intractable challenge to policies aimed ... -
Securing the Northern Region of Ghana? Development Aid and Security Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-16)This dissertation offers a perspective through which we can explore the processes of joint development and security interventions in conflict-prone regions. In employing the experiences of the Northern Region of Ghana as ... -
Youth Homelessness and Social Exclusion: A "Methods from the Margins" Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Social exclusion is the restriction of participation in one’s community; it is the denial of access to rights, services, dignity and respect. Youth who are homeless experience social exclusion on numerous fronts, as they ... -
Serving the Fast Food Nation: Analyzing and Understanding Food Choice, BMI and Self-Perceived Weight in the Food Service Worker Population
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Policymakers, politicians, and media outlets have declared an obesity epidemic. In doing so, they have named a variety of villains, including fast food. Despite the framing of fast food as being a leading contributor to ... -
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 ... -
Missing Persons and Social Exclusion
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)People who go missing are often perceived to have done so voluntarily, and yet, many missing persons in Canada are Aboriginal, visible minorities, homeless, and are fleeing from violence, abuse, and neglect. Integrating ... -
Offender Gender, Mental Illness and Trauma Experience in Relation to Re-contact with the Criminal Justice System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Female offenders’ experiences within the criminal justice system and the way in which they become involved with the criminal justice system are very different than that of male offenders. Previous research that has been ... -
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 ... -
Manifestation of Religious Authority on the Internet: Presentation of Twelver Shiite Authority in the Persian Blogosphere
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)Cyberspace has diversified and pluralized people’s daily experiences of religion in unprecedented ways. By studying several websites and weblogs that have a religious orientation, different layers of religious authority ... -
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 ... -
Multiple Programs, One Offender: Investigating the Interaction Effects of Custodial Treatment Programs on Male Offenders
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-14)Many offenders participate in multiple treatment programs while incarcerated. Despite this, few studies have investigated the possibility of interactions between programs, and instead the correctional discourse has focused ... -
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 ... -
Yes, We Are!: An Examination of Teachers' Understanding of their Work as Part of a Profession
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-24)The sociological literature on professions often portrays medicine and law as ideal-type professions. This is asserted largely on the basis of a list of criteria that tends to commonly include: extended education, specialized ... -
Lobbying for the "Public Good": A Case Study of a Nonprofit Sector Lobbying Effort in Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Political advocacy research has often relied on concepts from social movement literature to explain the success or failure of lobbying efforts. The following study builds on recent efforts to partner social movement concepts ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...