Completed Honours Theses

Completed Honours Theses are available through the Sociology Office. However, due to lack of space in the EC302 file cabinet, theses from 1986 - 1995 have been MOVED to the Sociology Cabinet located in EC 213. These theses have been highlighted.

If there is no hard copy on file, there is an * before the entry.

 


Baines, Bette. 1998. A search for Missing Information: The Role of Appearance in the Middle-Aged Woman’s Life.

Baxter, Melissa. 2005. Questioning Counseling Practices for Youth Depression: Biological or Social Disorder?

*Blackmore, Shara. 1999. The Transition of Female Second Year University Students. (No Hard Copy)

Boucher, Stephen. 1995. Integration as a Practical Accomplishment in a New Brunswick School Classroom.

Bourgeois, Monique. 2004.Crim U: A Case Study in the Social Organization of Working Class Women’s Career Expectations.

Branch, Tracy F. 1983. Lawyers: From Law School to Practice.

Breau, Kelly. 2009. Choice-making Opportunities within a Level 4 Adult Residential Facility

Brennan, Sandra. 2003. “I wouldn’t want to do this for my whole life”: A Case Study of Cashiers’ Work in Co-operative and Capitalist Grocery Stores.

Brewer, Joan. 1998. Mid-Life Women Returning to School in the Context of their Everyday Lives (Interdisciplinary Honours Thesis).

Bruce, Stephanie. 2002. “Not Abusive Enough...”: Women’s access to domestic legal aid in New Brunswick.

Bubar, Mitchell. 1997. A Bureaucratic Quagmire: The Working Relationship between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Customs.

*Burtt, Connie. 1995. The Carrying Out of Law: The Justice System vs The Victims

Bushey, Michele M. 1990. Divorce Mediation.

Calder, Scott C. 1994. The Miracle Catch.

Chaisson, Stella. 2000. The Management of Abused Women’s Realities Through Discretionary Processes.

Chamberlain, Kyle. 2009. Not Just Skinny Jeans and Hemp: The Identity and Ways in Which a Vegetarian “Becomes” Vegetarian.

Clark, Roderick. 2006. How Do You Feel Towards Me? An Analysis of the Social Organization of Therapists Experience in Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

Clarke-van Every, Dawn. 1995. Male Custodial Parents: The Use of Rhetoric.

*Collette, Gisèle M. 1988. Social Construction of Old Age and Aging.

Constantine, Stephanie. 2008. (Ad)dressing Environmental Issues: A Case Study of Environmental Issues in Print Advertising.

Cox, Heather. 2005. “Promise not to laugh?” A qualitative analysis of what it is like for young women to talk about depression.

Crawford, Kate. 2002. The Vegetarian: Constructing and Maintaining Identity.

Crouse, Tara. 1998. The Verbal and Physical Abuse of Prison Inmates: Informal Social Control in Canadian Prisons.

Cumberland, Judy. 1990. The Emergence and Effectiveness of the Employee-Assistance Programs.

Dicks, Stacy. 2009. Autism Spectrum Disorder: From Definition to Social Movement.

Dineen, Cathy. 2002. The Sibling Relationship as Work: How the Sibling Relationship is Maintained in Young Adulthood.

Doherty, Jason. 1997. Urban Waste Disposal: The Evolution of a Capitalist Labour Process.

Donovan, Jennie. 2009. Discursive Practices in New Brunswick’s Policies on Mental Health: The Art of Not Saying Much.

Doucet, Cynthia L. 1987. A Contrast of Mary O’Brien and Alternate Feminist Theories Including a Test Through the Experiences of Divorced Fathers.

Drohan, Jessica. 2004. Teaching First Nations’ Issues in Nova Scotia Classrooms

Dyke, Tracy. 1996. The Structure of News Coverage: A Content Analysis of the Debate Surrounding the Privatization of Corrections in a Sample of News Articles.

Eagles, Jilanna. 1999. The Quest for Acceptance and Support: The Experiences of New Brunswick Women in Nontraditional Blue-collar Occupations.

EasleSpirit. 2006. Have Dingle Residents Been Left Dangling? Exploring how Irish newspapers are covering the news.

Endo, Toshiumi. 1999. The Impact of Deregulation on the Work of Flight Attendants in the United States.

Farr, Wynne. 1989. The Decision Making Process of Adult Women, Who Enter Post Secondary Education or Make a Career of Homemaking.

Fleming, Michael. 2000. “All Dressed with no Place to Go.” A Study of the Social Disorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces, 1968-1999.

Fox, Lauren. 2006. The Making of Monogamy: A Sociological Outlook. A Study of Societal Influences on the Practice of Monogamy.

Fredericks, Erin. 2006. “Teaching to the Wall”: Teaching English as a second language in China and Japan.

Fredstrom, Lore. 1994. Government Brochures as Active Text and Constituents of the Social Relations of Public Discourse.

French, Tanya. 1993 Single Mothers in Poverty.

Fugere, Ginette. 2008.The Community Involvement Program: Who really becomes empowered?

Fuller, Janice Lynn. 2006. A Hairy Subject: A Case Study of Women’s Feminists Beliefs and their Hair Removal Practices.

Fusco, Leah. 2004. Understanding the Environmental Crisis: How Five Environmental Leaders Make Sense of Environmental Problems.

Gallant, Nick. 2003. From the Blue Room to Québec City: Activist Organizing in Fredericton.

Gallant, Sherri. 1997. We Have a Long Way to Go: An Examination of the Ideological and Structural Barriers to Gender Equality in Sport.

Gillies, Nicole. 1997. Women Returning to University: The Domestic Sphere.

Gilliss, Evelyn M. 1988. The Political Economy and Feminist Theory of Crime and Punishment.

Gilroy, Holly. 2008. The Vanishing Product: How Advertisers have Robbed Publicity of Product Function.

Gingras, Isabelle. 2008. Where’s the Debate? A Case Study of the Telegraph-Journal’s News Coverage of Irving Oil’s Eider Rock Project.

Gouliquer, M. Lynn. 1995. The needs and issues of Military Wives: A Case Study of Women’s Grass-Roots Struggle and the State.

Grasse, Murray L. 1989. The Integration of Mentally Handicapped Students into the School System: A Look at New Brunswick’s Policies.

*Green, Monnah. Eating Disorders: A Sociological Inquiry into Women’s Relation to Food.

*Greer, Tammy Lee. 1995. Playboy and the Culture of Sexuality: Patriarchy, Capitalism and Ideological Representations of the Erotic.

*Hardy, Karen. 1998. An Evaluation of the Portage Program. (No Hard Copy)

Harper, Marc. 2005. “Making themselves known”: A study of Canadian travelers who wear the Canadian flay abroad.

Hastings, Heather. 1996. An Analysis of the Organization of Work in New Brunswick’s Call Centre Industry.

Helfing, Carla. 1995. The Ideological Dilemma of Midwives: Conflict Within the Canadian Midwifery Movement.

Hennessey-Macfarlane, Gillian. 2009. ‘You’ve Been Tagged’: The Gap Between User Privacy and Facebook’s Privacy Policy.

Henwood, Scott . 2007 . Gamblers and Problems with ‘Problem Gambling’: An Institutional Ethnographic Examination of the Processes Governing Video Lottery Terminal Legislation in New Brunswick

Hickey, Kate. 2006. A Pilot Study: Content and Discourse Analysis of Authoritative Gender Voices and he nature-Nurture Debate in Canadian Living and Today’s Parent Magazine.

Higgins, Barbara. 1995. There’s Nothing To Do: A Look Into the Lives of the Homeless.

Hughson, Karen. 1996. The Fallacy of Irrationality: An Examination of the Level of Coverage and Treatment of Women’s Fear of Crime as Rational or Irrational in American Introductory Criminology Textbooks.

Innes, Pauline. 2004. The Way Mothers See It: Identifying and Treating ADHA in children.

Jakobson, Victoria. 2009. When Flower Power Meets Gray Power.

Jewett, Katherine. 2000 An In-Depth Analysis of the Portrayal of Genius in Recent Popular Film.

Johnson, Teresa. 1996. The Story of Oka: A Textual Analysis of a Documentary Film Account.

Kennedy, Valerie. 2002. Voices from the Now Silent Pews: A Study of Closed Rural Churches.

Keyes, Sarah. 2008. (Interdisciplinary) Keeping it Out of the Landfill: A Comparison for the Waste Diversion Strategies in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Kuin, Wendy C. 1996. Martensville Case: Myth or Reality?

Leavitt, Dawn. 1988. Contras, Communists and Calamities: Media Coverage of Central America.

LeBlanc, Misty. 2000

Leger, Catherine Janice. 1996. From Fact to Fiction: A Study of Parenting Roles on Television.

Leggatt, Donna. 2000. Accepting Difference: How Mothers Experience the Everyday World of Attentions Deficit Disorder (ADD)

Leggett, Julie. 2004. Science for Sale? Big Pharma, Big Money and the Marketing of Mental Illness.

Lunardi, Amanda. 2006. Experiences of Youth as Members of Cadets.

Lynch, Darren. 2000. (NEEDS BIBLIO.) Building a Cultural Mosaic & Keeping with Canada’s Humanitarian Tradition or Discriminating for Profit? Refugee Management and Control in Canadian Immigration Policy.

MacKay, Lori-Ann. 1998. Justice Between the Classes: The Differential Offering of Services to Young Offenders based on their Economic Backgrounds.

Madore, Jennifer. 2004. First Nations Education in New Brunswick Public Schools.

Mallory, Peter. 1999. Knowledge, Power, and the Addict: A genealogical Investigation of Addiction from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century.

Marlow, Del. 1991. The Politics of Pornography: The Fraser Commission and its Aftermath.

Martin, Karolyn. 2009. The ‘Facts of Life’? A Critical Analysis of Sexual Harassment Discourse in Higher Education in New Brunswick.

McCarty, Anya. 1999. The Experiences of Black Law Enforcement Officers.

*McCullum, Tina. 2002. Women in the Third World. (No Hard Copy)

McLaughlin, Darrell. 1990. A Critical Review of Rural Sociology in Advanced Industrial Society.

McMullen, Brenda. 1988. An Historical Analysis of Stratification in Ireland.

Merrill, Kristyna. 2000. New Feminisms and Anti-Feminisms in the 90s.

Miller, Sarah A. 1994. School in the Barn: A Retrospective Ethnography.

*Moore, Susan. 1997. Searching for Utopia with a Broken Compass: Using the Social Construction Theory to Explain the “Choice Between Single-Sex and Coeducational Schooling.

Mullaly, Robert M. 1993. A New Female Criminal? A Quantitative-Descriptive Study of the Liberal Feminist Opportunity Theory of Female Criminality.

Munson, Debra. ???? A Review of Serial Murder.

Newman, Serena. 1996. Women in Law School: Legal Education and the Bifurcated Consciousness.

Nickerson, Sara Jane. 1999. The Social Construction of an Applied Criminology Program.

Nielsen, Kathryn A. 1987. The Ideological Construction of the NEWS.

Oakley, Leona. 1995. Public “Sex Education”: Still a Private Affair

Oakley, Sarah. 2006. Denominational Growth and Youth Retention.

Ohara, Nami. 2003. Comparing Cultures: A Study of Japanese and Canadian Children’s Narratives.

Parrott, Chandra. 2000. “Would You Like to Hear a Story?” Experiences of Widowers in Their Own Words.

Perley, Bonnie. 1986. The Reality of Poverty in Capitalist Class Society.

Pineau, Stacey. 2008. Finding Molly: An Institutional Ethnographic Inquiry into Special Education Plans in New Brunswick.

Power, Barry J. 1984. The Catholic Church Today: A Crisis of Relevance.

*Pronko, Amanda. 2000. Female Sexuality: The Objectified on Objectivity.

*Rae, Wanda. 1998.A Content/Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Editorials: A Quest for “Truth” Surrounding the Westray Mine Disaster.

Rehe, Gisele. 2007. To Spray or Not to Spray?: A study of how four Maritime Newspapers reported the debate over whether or not to ban pesticides used for cosmetic reasons.

Ross, Linda. 1992. How Reproduction of High Statistical Problems are Accomplished and Experienced in the Canadian Federal Prison System.

Sacobie, Kathy E. 1995. The Social Construction of Love: Discourse Analysis of Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Saunders Hersey, Corinne. 1994. “Deadbeat Dads”: Enforcement Ideology and the New Brunswick Family Services Enforcement Office.

Scott, Nicholas. 2007. “Your Labour Has Value Damn It!”: Striking a Balance Between Social Movement and Economic Organization in a Workers’ Cooperative.

Sherman, Lisa. 1994. Young Offender Law in Canada: The Controversy of Violent & Repeat Offenders.

*Slaney, Stephanie. 2000.

*Slattery, Neil. 1991. The Politics and Practices of Rehabilitation Programs for Men Who Abuse Women.

Smithwick, Neal A. 1997. Pedagogy in Practice.

Sparks, Stephanie. 2006. Sexual Communications.

Ste-Marie, Melanie. 2007. Denied Access: Women Students Resist Construction of Themselves as Depressed in the Corporate University

Van Woudenberg, Gerdine. 1997. Colonialism, Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples: A Reappraisal of the Universality of Human Rights (Interdisciplinary Honours Thesis).

Wallace, Laura. 1999. On the Outside Looking In: Native Spirituality Within Atlantic Canada Correctional Services.

Ward, Patrick. 1994. Who Owns My Life? The Religious Debate Over the Issue of Euthanasia.

Watling, Amy. 2005. “‘Better than I expected’: Retirement in New Brunswick.”

Watters, Martha. 1989. A Political Economy Approach to the Environmental Problems Resulting from Forest Harvesting Practices in New Brunswick; with the Swedish Experience as a Comparison and Contrast.

Wheatley, Patti. 2006. “U.S. AIDS Prevention Policy and South African Culture: Considering the ABC Approach.”

*White, Brenda. 1995. Informal Social Organization of Conflict Between Shelter Staff.

*Wilkins, Jennifer. 1998. Monopolizing Control Over Medicine in Nineteenth Century Canada: The Case of the ‘Regular’ Physicians.

Wilson, Dave. 1998. An Ethnographic Assessment of the Level of Service Inventory (Interdisciplinary Honours Thesis).

Wilson, Joanne. 1996. Taking Cultural Relations for Granted: Native Peoples and Education.

Wright, Justin. 2004. The Impact of Smoking Habituation on Individual and Social Identity.

Zangger, Catherine. Changing the Canadian Sex Industry: Language and its Influence on Law Reform.