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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 ... -
Constituting Restorative Justice: A Case Study Exploring Volunteers’ Experiences of Meaning
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Restorative Justice (RJ), a model for responding to crime that focuses on addressing harm and restoring the relationships between victim, offender, and community, has gained legitimacy as an effective alternative to lengthy ... -
Constructing Crime: Understanding the Roles, Functions and Claims-Making Activities of Media Relations Officers in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-22)Despite a growing body of prior research, little attention has been paid to media relations officers (MROs) and how media releases are constructed for the public. This research begins to address this gap by examining the ... -
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 ... -
Developing a Community: Qualitative Approaches to Understanding the Role of Community Engagement in Gameswork
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-24)Through multiple qualitative approaches, this dissertation contributes to understanding the increased role of addressing, engaging, and managing online communities in gameswork. It pays particular attention to how individual ... -
Deviant peer preferences: A simplified approach to account for peer selection effects
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The goal of this study is to present and validate a simple method for accounting for peer selection on offending based on a respondent’s self-reported preferences for friends who engage in criminal behavior. Using primary ... -
Deviant peer preferences: A simplified approach to account for peer selection effects
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-09)The goal of this study is to present and validate a simple method for accounting for peer selection on offending based on a respondent’s self-reported preferences for friends who engage in criminal behavior. Using primary ... -
Dine and Dash: A Test of Criminological Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)No known research has tested the etiological processes underlying “dining and dashing,” an act that has substantial financial implications for the restaurant industry. Dine and dash is defined as people using a food and/or ... -
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 ... -
Doing Transparent and Reproducible Quantitative Sociology
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-08)The ongoing replication crisis (Baker 2016; Gelman and Loken 2016; Freese and Peterson 2017; Wiggins and Christopherson 2019; Bird 2020; Colling and Szűcs 2021) has laid bare quantitative sociology’s need for better ... -
Domestic Terrorism in the Canadian News Media: a Framing Analysis of Canadian-Connected Terrorism in 2013 Newspaper Articles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)Terrorism is one of the most politically and rhetorically significant issues shaping the world today, and a popular topic in the news media. Canada is no exception. Recently, the problem of domestic (or homegrown) terror ...