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Older adults as volunteers in Thunder Bay
(1993)This is a descriptive and exploratory study which examines the characteristics and expressed motivations among older adults in Thunder Bay toward volunteerism and if altruism is in fact the main reason for why older ... -
Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada
(2016)The publishing practices of scientists and academics have profound effects on the way that science and academia internally progress and influence external public debates. The culmination of empirical, theoretical, and ... -
An ostensible exercise in modernity: law, religious intervention, and social science in the case of Bedford vs. Canada
(2014-01-22)Drawing on Adele Clarke’s (2005) method of situational analysis as well insights from the social construction of social problems approach (Spector and Kitsuse 1977; Best 2008), symbolic interactionism (Prus 1999) and ... -
Painting like a housewife : an inquiry into gender bias in professional art education
(2005)Primary research method consisted of in-depth interviews with 10 female artists from Thunder Bay, Northwestern Ontario, Canada. -
Performing authenticity : the game of contemporary backpacker tourism
(2002)The purpose of this thesis is to analyze contemporary backpacker tourism in Australia. It is an investigation into the degree to which aspects of backpacker tourism have become incorporated into mainstream culture despite ... -
Physicians' perceptions of elderly alcohol abuse
(1998)Alcohol abuse Is often hidden and unrecognized problem among seniors. Although the degree of the aged affected by alcohol abuse may not be extremely high, alcohol consumption appears to be particularly toxic In the elderly, ... -
Pregnancy : a social construction
(1997)Departing from conventional social science approaches to pregnancy and the pregnant woman’s body this study examines pregnancy as experience", a socially constructed state of being where attitudes about sexuality and ... -
Primary nursing as a potentially humanizing innovation in nursing home care
(1990)In four months of observation at Stafford House, an attempt was made to discover whether or not residents were receiving "humanized" care and if so, if this humanization was a result of, or was enhanced by, the implementation ... -
Recategorizing pornography through technocultural change
(2012-11-10)Pornography has long been a subject of great controversy, much disagreement and conflict on intellectual and legal levels. There have been extensive debates on pornography regarding its potential to do psychological harm, ... -
Regulated Health Professions Act and dental hygiene : a study of the changing social organization of health care delivery in Ontario / Lynda McKeown Mickelson
(1995)Has the new health legislation, the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1994. changed the social organization of health care delivery in Ontario? My research has shown that this new legislation, which governs twenty-four ... -
Religion, modernity and homosexual ordination in a liberal protestant denomination
(1993)The United Church of Canada's General Council determined that all members could be considered for ordained ministry regardless of sexual orientation in 1988. The membership was not unanimous in this matter. This ... -
Reproductive tourism : the case of India, a feminist critical discourse analysis of Indian gestational surrogacy tourism
(2009)Within an increasingly globalized medical community, people have begun to travel outside of their own geographic locations in order to obtain various medical procedures. Reproductive tourism is one of the latest developments ... -
Retention of ethnic culture among Thunder Bay Finns / by Michael J. Maunula. --
(1984)The thesis addresses the question: "What are the factors influencing the level of ethnic culture retention among Thunder Bay Finns?" The investigation is focused on three characteristics: residency (urban or rural), ... -
Retooling gender? a constructivist analysis of Tomboy Tools / by Rebecca Collins-Nelsen.
(2010)"In this study, I will examine the case of 'Tomboy Tools' as a form of gendered material culture. I will analyze the way this company has come to cross the traditional gender boundaries placed on women that has historically ... -
Safeguarding the "springs of life" : women's contributions to social and moral reform in Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario, 1900-1930
(1998)This thesis examines women's involvement in the moral and social reform movement under the umbrella of social purity, as it occurred in Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario, between 1900-1930. I analyze the role of two ... -
A Seventh fire spark preparing the seventh generation : what are the education related needs and concerns of students from Rainy River First Nations
(2012-11-10)This study examines factors that impact high school completion for Rainy River First Nations students living on-reserve in the Manitou Rapids community in Ontario. Utilizing traditional community knowledge as a guiding ... -
Sex and death in modern America : media as a haven for taboo transgression
(2012-11-10)This study examines popular media representations of sex and death, using examples from television, film and the internet, and frames them using Bakhtin's [Mikhail Bakhtin] theory of carnivalization and Foltyn's [Jacque ... -
Simveillance in hyperreal Las Vegas
(2002)On a Thursday afternoon, an average Canadian leaves her office, and goes to a nearby bank machine to get a cash advance on one of her credit cards. She uses the money to buy lunch at a mall food court, then wanders into ... -
Social construction of the middle class : class identification and class images of young Canadians
(1999)There is a contradiction between some of the theoretical issues regarding class and the results of subjective class identification research in the United States and in Canada. Arguments concerning the decline of the ...