Department Theses

Sep-12
Sociology THESES
2012
LOCKHART, Emily
MA
Who is the Expert of Experience? Legal vs. Individual Definitions of
Culture in the Canadian Courtroom - Linda Neilson
Being Well in the Digital Age: A Sociological Examination of the Interplay
between the Internet and Personal Well-Being in New Brunswick - Vanda
Rideout
Positive Psychology as a Scientific Movement: A case study in the
Rational Dialectic of Scientific Legitimacy
MILTSOV, Alexandre
MA
SIMMONS, Jonathan
MA
LEACH, Lori
PhD
McMULLIN, Steve
ROUSSELLE, Duane
PhD
MA
WOLF, Andrea
MA
“Fighting” Revictimization: The Discursive Resistance of Sexual Assault
Complainants - Chris McCormick & Chris Doran
GUNN, Lynn
PhD
HENDERSON, Karla
PhD
Exploring Internal and External Influences on Judicial Decision-Making in
Case of Men and Women who Commit Multiple Murder Together - Gary
Bowden & Chris McCormick (STU)
To Develop and Express One’s Nature-Connection: Grounded Ecological
Dialogue with Vision Questers - Will van den Hoonaard
MAROTTA, Luana
MA
PAUL, Fern
MA
GALBRAITH, Joanne
MA
HOLTMANN, Cathy
MA
PATTERSON, Tenielle
MA
ROGERS, Cathy
PhD
ROSS, Meaghan
MA
2011
The Mutual Shaping of Gender and Technology at New Brunswick's CAP
Site - Jennie Hornosty
Social Aspects of Religious Decline - Nancy Nason-Clark
Kropotkin is Dead: A Second Order Reading of Ethics in the Philosophies
of Post-Anarchism and Georges Bataille - Isher Paul Sahni
2010
Quality Criteria For Measurement In Social Research: A Study of Item
Bias in the Early Years Evaluation - Direct Assessment - Lucia Tramonte &
J. Doug Willms
Bill C-31: The Lived Experiences of “Indian” Women Who "Married Out" Linda Neilson
2009
A Healing Voice: Exploring the Response of Protestant Clergy Women to
Women who are Victims of Intimate Partner Violence - Nancy NasonClark
Heart, Mind and Soul: Catholic Women and Social Action - Nancy NasonClark
‘Look Deh Now, Everything Crash! The Efficacy of Structural Adjustment
Plans in Jamaica (1962-2002) - Gary Bowden
“Narrating Childhood: Making Meaning Amid Poverty and Social
Isolation” - Linda Neilson/William Randall
Health and Social Services Provision to Pregnant and Parenting
Adolescents in Southern New Brunswick - Luc Theriault
VAIR, Hester
PhD
Work and Motherhood: Challenging or Reinforcing Gendered Dualisms? Jennie Hornosty
DEVEAU, Jean Louis
PhD-IS Workplace Accomodation for Disabled Workers in the Canadian Federal
Public Service: a Textually Mediated Social Organization - Deborah
Harrison
MA
Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Feminist Identity & Beauty
Practices in Young Women’s Lives - Jennie Hornosty
MA
Military Masculinities: An Exploration of Masculinities of Male RSM
Clerks & Male Infantrymen in the Canadian Forces - Deborah
Harrison/Hugh Lautard
MA
Organizing Disability in Post-Secondary Education: A Study of Exam
Accommodation and Institutional Discourse - Jacqueline Low
2008
FULLER, Janice
OAKLEY, Sarah
ROSS, Tim
2007
BRITTAIN, James
PhD
KASSABIAN, Taline
MA
KITCHEN, Sandra
MA
MCKILLOP, Laura
MA
MORRISEY, Barbara
MA
PALING, Rosanna
MA
CARR, Tracy
Ph.D.
FISHER-TOWNSEND,
Barbara
PhD
MALCOLM-GORHAM,
Jeannie
MA
RUFF, Lanette
PhD
RUNTE, Eduardo
MA
Change in the Countryside: An Examination of Pre-Revolutionary and
Revolutionary Social Change within Southwestern (Rural) Colombia Jennie Hornosty
Violence Against Prostitutes: A Comprehensive Content Analysis of the
Toronto Star, 1985-2002 - Deborah Harrison and Robert Ameh
Adolescent Drug(marijuana?) Use in Canada: An Integrated Theoretical
Approach - Doug Williams/Gary Bowden
Sifting Through Catholic Tradition: Catholic Women Negotiate the
Traditions of Their Church and Construct Religious Meaning - Will van
den Hoonaard
A Study in the Delivery of Long-Term Care For Adults with Disabilities in
Southern New Brunswick
Ethical Research and Children: How Researchers Go About Designing
Child-Based Research Taking Ethics into Consideration - Will van den
Hoonaard
2006
From Ideals to Realities: Exploring the Meaning and Experience of
Spiritual Nursing Care in a Contemporary Western Healthcare System Hugh Lautard
Changing Violent Religious Men: The Intersection of the Criminal Justice
System, Batterer’s Intervention Programs and Faith-Based Services and
Supports - Nancy Nason-Clark
Toward Thriving: The Process of Single Mothers’ Evolution Through
Reorienting and Cultivating New Ground - Hugh Lautard and Judith
Wuest
Religiosity, Resources and Regrets: Religious and Social Variations in
Conservative Protestant Mothering - Nancy Nason-Clark
Power for the People: Linemen’s Experience of Disaster - Gary Bowden
WRIGHT, Justin
MA
Re-conceptualizing Addiction: A Deconstructive Analysis of Addiction
Theory- Colm Kelly and David Rehorick
BRUCE, Stephanie
M.A.
CLARKE, Dawne
Ph.D.
DUNWOODY, Alison
Ph.D.
FORBES, Laurie
Ph.D.
IT’S NOT ALL THE COPS: Investigating the Variances in Police Responses
to Woman Abuse
Scholars Talk About Writing: An Exploration of Academic Writing and
Culture.
“The Nature of the Business”: The Influence of Institutional and
Organizational Elements on Clinical Decision-Making in Emergency
Medicine. - Larry Wisniwski
Community in the Wilderness: Women’s Contribution to the Formation
of Community in the Single Industry Town. - Jim Richardson
JEWETT, Mary Katherine
M.A.
NUGENT, Linda
Ph.D.
BRAYTON, Jennifer
RAHAT, Rahla
Ph.D.
M.A.
The Meanings and Experiences of Virtual Reality
Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women with Health Care in the
Greater Toronto Area
CONNOLLY, Anita Lynn
M.A.
The Changing Arctic Community: Discussions with Inuit Women in Iqaluit,
Nunavut
Just Buying Themselves a Job: The Work Lives and Work Ideology of
Owner-Operator Truck Drivers
Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement On the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police in the Control of International Illegal Drug
Trade
Social Reality Versus Family Law: The Experience of Mothers of Children
With Long-Term Disabilities
The Institution of Canadian Public Broadcasting in the Age of the Internet
2005
2004
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: A Critical Analysis of Wedding Magazines - Vanda
Rideout
Understanding Home Support Work in New Brunswick: The Human Costs
of Care (2 copies)
2003
2002
FLEMING, Michael Anthony M.A.
JEAN, Suzanne
M.A.
JONES, Elaine
M.A.
MILLIKEN, Mary
M.A.
PARROTT, Chandra
M.A.
It’s a Different Kind of Home: Subjective Experiences of Nursing-Home
Life
BARSBY, Helen
M.A.
CAISSIE, Linda
JANES, Shari L.
M.A.
M.A.
McCOY, Robert George
M.A.
ROGERS, Cathy
M.A.
Canada’s Bedouins - the Effects of Geographical Mobility on School-Aged
Children of Military Members
Gone Pishing: The Social World of Birding by Older Adults
Good Women Making Bad Choices: The Impact of Institutional
Judgement on Women’s Understanding of Self and Their Strategies for
Resistance
Employing an Individual with a Disability: Does This Have an Effect on
Employers’ Attitudes?
Slicing the Baloney: A Social Policy Ethnography of Beliefs Underlying
Rhetoric About Child Poverty in Canada
2001
THOMAS-MacLEAN,
Roanne
Ph.D.
Victims, Patients, Survivors, Women: Experiences of Embodiment After
Breast Cancer
FORD, Elizabeth C
M.A.
McLAUGHLIN, Darrell
Ph.D.
The Development of Co-operative Ideology: From Social Transformation
to Organisational Survival
Escaping the Treadmill?: An Ethnographic Look at the Development of
Sustainable Agriculture in Canada and in Sweden
SLEEP, Lenora
M.A.
Women, Work and Worship: The Relationship Between the Pentecostal
Family and Modernity
RUFF, Lanette
M.A.
Home Schooling: A Response to a Perceived Moral Crisis in Education
WILLIAMS, Shannon Adair
M.A.
Human Rights in Theory and Practice: A Sociological Study of Aboriginal
Peoples & the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, 1967-1997
ATCHISON, Dennis
BENT, Kimberly A.
M.A.
M.A.
Towards A Better Understanding of Charitable Organizations
Bridging Worlds: Readjusting to Life at “Home” After Living “Abroad”
2000
1999
1998
CHRISTIE, M. M. Jamella
M.A.
CLARKE-VAN EVERY, Dawne M.A.
FRIZZELL, Angela
M.A.
HANSON, Lisa
M.A.
HASTINGS, Heather
MILAN, Anne Marie
M.A.
Ph.D.
SPENCER, Michelle
M.A.
DUNWOODY, Alison Lee
M.A.
CALHOUN-PERLEY, Bonnie
E.
IVERSON, Alexander
Sabastian
LEFEBVRE, Marc Patrick
M.A.
TAN PORTER, Debbie Eng
Bee
M.A.
BEAMAN-HALL, Lori
Ph.D.
Horseback Riding for the Disabled: An Interactionist Perspective
Religion, Interaction, and Experiential Research: A Study of a “Christian
Healing Women’s Group
Biting the Hand That Feeds: The Social Construction of Adolescent
Violence Toward Parents as a Social Problem
“Blest be the Tie That Binds”: Examining the Role of Religion in the Lives
of Elderly United Baptist Widows
The Wiccan Religion: a Case Study of a Symbolic Community
The Characteristics and Experience of Cohabitors as a Heterogeneous
Group
Mary, Mary Quite Submissive...An Analysis of Catholic Teaching in the
Lives of Practising Catholic Women
1997
M.A.
M.A.
The Medicalization of Childbirth: An Exploration of the Hospital-Centered
Childbirth Experience
The Use of Native Spirituality in Addiction Treatments: A Case Study of
the Five New Brunswick Native Treatment Centres.
Artistic Creativity and Commodification: A Sociological Study of Pictorial
Art Practices in a Provincial Art World
An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Credentials and Access to the
Professions and Trades in New Brunswick
The Status of Women in a Transitional Society: Male-Female Differentials
in Education, Occupation, and Earnings in Singapore
1996
Feminist Practice, Evangelical Worldview: The Response of Conservative
Protestant Women to Wife Abuse
HOYT, Christy L. Terris
M.A.
Cares, Conflict and Counselling: A Study of Evangelical Youth and their
Youth Pastors
Daughters’ Caring for Their Elderly Mothers: An Exploration of Caregiving
Relationships
Mothering for the State: A Sociological Exploration of Foster Mothers in
New Brunswick
Women in Transition: From Homemaker to Paid Employment
LYNCH, Kathleen E.
M.A.
MIEDEMA, Baukje
Ph.D.
TINGLEY, Kathryn Lois
M.A.
FITCH, Leanne Jane
M.A.
FULLERTON, Robin
Catherine
GREER, Tammy Lee
Ph.D.
SMITH, Tina Ann
M.A.
GRAHAM, Elizabeth A.
M.A.
Women’s Menstrual Experiences: The Effects of Social Influences
LONERGAN, S. Rachel
Ph.D.
LOUGHERY, Sharon M.
M.A.
North American Gypsies and Roma: Linking Ethnic Survival to Cultural
Secrecy and Hidden/Underground Economies
Ethnic Retention of an Aging Urban Jewish Community in Saint John, New
Brunswick
GENTILE, Diana
M.A.
An Examination of Women’s Role in the Maintenance of an Ethnic
Identity Within the Chinese Community of Fredericton, New Brunswick
McLAUGHLIN, Darrell
M.A.
STAPLETON, Anne Furlong
M.A.
TINGLEY, Mary Elizabeth
M.A.
Beyond the Farm-gate: A Case Study of Constraints and Possibilities as
Experienced by New Brunswick Farm People
The Power and the Pedestal: Roman Catholic Women in Newfoundland
Reassess Their Beliefs and Attitudes in the Aftermath of Scandal. * copy
missing
Quality of Life: A Sociological Study of the Lives of the Mentally
Handicapped in New Brunswick
BEAMAN-HALL, Lori
M.A.
Negotiating the Options: How a Programme For Men Who Batter
Negotiates its Identity in a Network of Community Agencies
CHESSA, Samuel Robert
Ph.D.
MacDONALD, Gayle
Michelle
PRASAD, Satendra
Ph.D.
The Use and Spread of Agricultural Innovations Among Small-Holding
Farming Communities in Busia District, Kenya: Issues in Agricultural
Extension
An Equality Analysis: Feminist Praxis and the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms
Re-Theorising the Post-Colonial State: A Case Study of Ethnicity,
Industrial Relations and Political Change in Fiji
1995
M.A.
Reviving the Peeler?: A Case Study of Organizational Change and
Community Based Policing.
Potato Farmers in Exile: Power, State, and the Mobilization of an Interest
Group
Playboy and the Culture of Sexuality: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and
Ideological Representations of the Erotic
An Ethnographic Exploration of Native-Language Use: A Case Study of a
Micmac Community
1994
1993
1992
1991
M.A.
LEMOINE, Suzanne Mary
M.A.
The Social Construction of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Newspaper
Reporting (2 copies -1 from David Rehorick Aug 3/01)
McINNIS, Troy C.
M.A.
Catholic Charismatic Renewal and Cursillo: A Comparison of Internal NonSchismatic Religious Movements and Their Members
MILAN, Anne Marie
M.A.
Determinants of Fertility for Women in Canada and the United States.
*copy missing
ARAI, Alfred Bruce
M.A.
FISHER-TOWNSEND,
Barbara Ann
FULLERTON, Robin
Catherine
MIEDEMA, Baukje
M.A.
The Enforcement Practices of Fishery Officers: A Case Study from the
Scotia-Fundy Region
Handcrafted Careers: Traditional Work, Non-Traditional Workers
WAITE, Garth
M.A.
CARR, Joan Anne Blanche
M.A.
McLEOD MacKNIGHT,
Wendy E.
MOORE, Terrance Dennis
M.A.
SPALDING, Donna M.
Ph.D.
LUTES, Mark W.
M.A.
MAGEE, Maureen Frances
M.A.
MITCHELL, Lois Patricia
Ph.D.
ROLFE, Eugene Willard
M.A.
The Subjective Experience of Community: The Social Construction of
Communal Life
MURPHY, Thomas
Raymond
van den HOONAARD,
Deborah K.
M.A.
The Structural Transformation of New Brunswick Agriculture from 1951
to 1981
Every Day is Sunday: Compliance and the Development of Social Values
in a Florida Retirement Community
ABDUL-KARIM, Yusuf
CROWELL, Seth Wilson
M.A.
M.A.
1990
M.A.
M.A.
The Fredericton Golf Club: A Study of the Process of Rationalization (2
copies)
Control or Cure? The Experiences of Psychiatric Ex-Patients in New
Brunswick
Social Organization Through Text: Implications of AIDS Policy for New
Brunswick Schools
1989
M.A.
Transformation or Perpetuation? The Role of Education in the Lives of
Mature Female Students
Renegotiating Rights: The Perceptions of Seniors and Service Providers of
the Right of the Elderly to Live at Risk
Reading Between the Lines: The Social Networks of Nonreaders in an
Adult Literacy Program
The Socio-Economic Implications of Resource Development for an
Atlantic Service Town
1987
The Social Construction of Maritime Economic Reality: A Textual Analysis
of Late 19th Century Banking Practices
Volunteer Work in a Non-Voluntary Setting: A Case Study of a General
Hospital
“Making it Pay”: A Study of the Organization and Operation of the Deer
Island Weir Fishery
1985
1984
M.A.
1983
The Ecological Structure of Halifax, 1971-1976
Retirees’ Perspectives on the social Phenomena of Retirement: A Study
of Transition (2 copies)
KELLY, Colm Joseph
M.A.
The Language of Service Encounters: The Organization of Talk in Practical
Settings (2 copies)
ARTHUR, John Ayaa
M.A.
GEORGE, John Palmer, Jr.
M.A.
MENSAH, Ernest
M.A.
Dynamics of Paroling: An Evaluation of an Aspect of the Criminal Justice
System of Canada (2 copies)
The Planter Class in Hancock County, Georgia, 1850-1870: A Study in the
Decline of Power and Privilege (2 copies)
The Demographic and Ecological Perspectives of Spatial Distribution in
Fredericton and Saint John, 1971-1976
CHAPMAN, Janet M.
M.A.
Military and Civilian Relations: A Study of Sub-Community Maintenance
and Development in Oromocto
BROOKS, Rowena
M.A.
Government Policies and the Occupational Structure of New Brunswick
HICKS, Jacquelyn Alys
M.A.
The Development of Moncton: An Ecological Perspective, From 1938
1982
1981
1980
MacDONALD, John Gordon M.A.
NADEAU, Dorothy Rae
M.A.
O’TOOLE, Cheryl Marie
Milbury
PERLEY, David Gerard
Gabriel
M.A.
M.A.
Urban Kinship in Cape Breton: A Study of the Conjugal Family System (2
copies)
Recidivism: A Comparative Study of the Correctional Programs in New
Brunswick
The Last Alternative: Perceptions of Aging in a Nursing Home
Factors Influencing Dropout of Indian Students From Saint Thomas
University
1979
VOWLES, Martha Elizabeth M.A.
Ann
For Medicinal Purposes Only: A Sociological Perspective on the
Instrumental Use of Drugs
ALLABY, Colleen Marie
M.A.
MacWILLIAM, Margaret
Edith
SPALDING, Donna M.
M.A.
Community Control and Student Decision-Making: A Study of a New
Brunswick Rural Community
Making Believers: Resocialization and Conversion in Encounter Groups
M.A.
Some Sociological Dimensions of Continuing Education
ALLEN, Brenda Loree
CAMIOT, Michael G.
M.A.
M.A.
Mass Media and Opinion Formation Among Adolescents
Becoming Wise: The Practical World of the Training School Officer
SCOTT, Donald Arthur
M.A.
Coordination in Elementary and Junior High Schools
McDONELL, Janice Lynn
M.A.
The Life Cycle of a Voluntary Service Organization
McDOUGALL, Alexander
Hector
M.A.
The Physician-Patient Relationship: A Comparison of the PhysicianPatient Relationship in a Rural Clinic With That in a Urban Hospital
Outpatient Clinic (2 copies)
Class, Status and Colour in St. Kitts, West Indies (2 copies)
1978
1977
1976
1975
SEBASTIAN, Avis Marguerite M.A.
WIGGINS, Nancy Carol
M.A.
The Relationships Between Social Class, Health-Seeking Behaviors and
the Definitions of Health
BOSTON, Janet Ellen Poth
M.A.
BURGOYNE, Roseville
Luther Paul
CURLL, Joan Lillias
M.A.
Education and Reserve Culture: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Education.
*copy missing
New Denmark: An Ethnic Community in Canada
FAGAN, Christine
M.A.
MacLEOD, Judy
M.A.
PARIOLA, Ambrose Bola
M.A.
PERUSSE, Vernon J.
M.A.
ROBSON, Arthur Joseph
TRIBBLE, Stephen Pearce
M.A.
M.A.
VIGOD, Zena Lela
M.A.
DUNPHY, Peter Hughes
Gerard
GHAEMMAGHAMI, Farhat
A.
McGIBBON, Mary Louise
M.A.
1974
M.A.
Social Distance and the Process of Negotiation: A Comparative Case
Study of a Therapeutic Community and a Living Unit Within a Prison
Setting
Orientations and Socialization Within the New Brunswick Correctional
System: A Study of Correctional Officers (2 copies)
Life in a Home for the Aged: A Case Study of a Community of Senior
Citizens
Education and Social Mobility: The Emergence of New Elites in Western
Nigeria (2 copies)
Socio-Economic Variations and Adolescent Social Participation in
Extracurricular Activities in a New Brunswick Secondary School Complex
Labeling in Probation: The Construction of Presentence Reports
Pulptown, Canada: A Study of Migration to a Planned New Brunswick.
*copy missing
Conflicting Organizational Goals: A Cast Study of a therapeutic
Community Within a Prison Setting
1972
M.A.
M.A.
The Officer Factory: Cadet Culture in an Officer Candidate School, 1972
*copy missing
Alienation and Political Knowledge: A Study of the Political Orientations
of Freshmen at the University of New Brunswick
Blue-Collar Workers: A Study of Four Occupational Sub-Types (2 copies)
VAUGHAN, Yvonne Lorraine M.A.
The Autonomy of Public School Teachers
LAUTARD, Emile Hugh
M.A.
Brokers and Drivers: A Comparative Analysis of Long-Distance Truck
Drivers (2 copies)
CURRIE, Barbara
M.A.
1971
1970
ST. JOHN, Lois Ann
M.A.
An Exploratory Study of the Legal Profession and Change in the Law: SelfConception of Lawyers
Planning and Influence in Rivertown: The Relationship of Community
Elites to the Public Planning Process (2 copies)
Conflict and Neighborhood Organization
MacRAE, Peter Howard
M.A.
The Anglican Church and the Ecumenical Movement in New Brunswick
HUNSLEY, Terrance Michael M.A.
1969
1968
GOLDBERG, Steven
M.A.
SUH, Matthew Chung Kuee M.A.
Attitudes of the Civil Service of New Brunswick and the Program of
Evolution (2 copies)
A Sociological Study of Role Conflicts Among Nursing Students
1967
ANDREWS, Alick Robert
M.A.
Social Crisis and Labour Mobility: A Study of Economic and Social Change
in a New Brunswick Railway Community
Migrants and Settlers: The Influence of Geographical Mobility on the
Retention of Extended Kinship Ties (2 copies)
The Fredericton Jewish Community: A Study in Class, Status, and Religion
(2 copies)
BUTLER, Peter Marshall
M.A.
FOOTE, Raymond Leslie
M.A.
DeWITT, Robert Lee
M.A.
The Lutheran Church in Fredericton
McPHEE, Shirley Evelyn
M.A.
Social Organization and Economic Change in a Fishing Community (2
copies)
NABLO, Ronald William
M.A.
Social Structure Related to Business and Finance in a Seaport City
1965
1963
1960