Browsing Department of Sociology Graduate Theses by Title
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The Long History of the Networked Home: Convergences of technology, space and sociality in the domestic environment
(2011-08-11)This dissertation is about the increasing technologization of domestic spaces and the implications for human-technology sociality that are ‘built-into’ ICT-enabled domestic spaces and technologies. Its central focus is the ... -
Loyal Subjects?: Consumer surveillance in the personal information economy
(2008-04-25)This research examines loyalty marketing as an empirical case study of consumer surveillance. Focusing on the Canadian context, the research investigates the relationship between the personal information economy and loyalty ... -
Making Hair Matter: Untangling Black Hair/Style Politics
(2010-06-23)Hair is a remarkably complex material-semiotic entity. Caught on the cusp between self/society, meticulously contrived and purposely styled, hair is crucial in the articulation of identity and difference. However, although ... -
The Man in the Mirror: An Examination of the Constitution of Megamusculinity
(2010-12-24)The inextricable link between muscularity and masculinity has been increasingly accentuated over the past fourty years, resulting in behaviours that can become unhealthy from a variety of perspectives. Gender is often ... -
Manufacturing Ideologies of the "Bad" Mother in Ontario Child Welfare
(2015-09-22)In Canada, under the guise of austerity measures, the state is increasingly distancing itself from the responsibility of helping families raise their children (Vandenbeld Giles 2012; Walmsley and Tessier 2015). This ... -
Materiality, Becoming, and Time: The Existential Phenomenology of Sexuality
(2013-02-05)As much of the scholarly literature shows, gender has served as a central organizing force for knowing and theorizing about sexuality. The governmentality of sexuality in Western societies over the last 200 years has led ... -
The Media and The Postmodern Athlete: A Political Economic Analysis of Mia Hamm and David Beckham
(2010-04-14)Sport has become so deeply in engrained in Western culture that society’s understanding of it has become permeated with common sense. Deromanticizing the idea of sport, researchers have recently come to study sport as a ... -
The Militia Movement in Bangladesh
(2010-06-03)In the post-9/11 world, Bangladesh has been identified as a new hub of the Al-Qaeda network in South Asia. Most of the contemporary national and international media reports, security documents, and even academic studies ... -
Mindfulness, Self, and Society: Toward a Sociological Critique of Mindfulness- Based Interventions
Initially introduced to the clinical literature in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness has continued to emerge as an empirically model of intervention used for addressing individual barriers ranging from psychological ... -
The Missing Link as Othering: A Critical Genealogy of Paleoanthropology
(2014-02-04)The science of human origins, known formally as ‘paleoanthropology’, was effectively born in the fierce late nineteenth century debate as to the human status of Neanderthal. Critical social theory on ‘scientism’ has ... -
A Mobile Army of Metaphors: Archiving, Sharing, and Distributing the Social in Digital Photography
(2011-10-04)This thesis charts the shifts in metaphors of memory associated with the digitization of personal photography – from ‘archiving’ to ‘sharing’ – developing a strong account of the role of metaphor in shaping cultural ... -
Moffitt's Delinquency Abstention: An Examination of the Predictors of Adolescent Refrainment from Crime
(2015-04-20)Adolescent delinquency is a common phenomenon that has been studied extensively for decades. Much is known about the factors which influence youth involvement in activities such as underage drinking, smoking, and drug use. ... -
More than Getting Wasted: A Description of Youth Emergency Department Visits Attributable to Alcohol Use at Kingston Health Sciences Centre from 2013-2017
The objective of this study is to describe youth presentation to the Emergency Department (ED) for alcohol-related issues. Current alcohol-related research relies on self-reported data of individual-level alcohol consumption. ... -
More than just 'notorious': critical considerations of gender in the early history of Kingston Penitentiary
(2007-09-13)For centuries, scholarship in the area of punishment, prisons and corrections has been generated by a number of different disciplines. It is difficult to argue the fact that there has been a bias in this literature toward ... -
Mundane Surveillance: Tracking mobile applications and urban accounting in Canadian Business Improvement Areas
In response to splintering streetscapes and in order to remain relevant amidst “smart cities” and “urban big data”, Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) have moved away from clipboards and ledgers, to become early adopters ... -
Mutual Augmentation of Surveillance Practices on Social Media
(2011-01-04)Social media services like Facebook mark the continued domestication of surveillance technology. Facebook has been remarkably successful at establishing a presence within a variety of social settings, including the ... -
Navigating Canadian Drone Space: A Sociological Analysis of the Stakeholders, Narratives, and Policy Shaping Canadian Unmanned Systems
In this dissertation, I undertake an in-depth examination of the stakeholder networks and narratives that are driving and shaping drone technologies and corresponding policy within Canada. It examines how and why some ... -
Networks of Solidarity in Prison Writing: Facilitation of Critical Penal Discourse through the Kingston Prison for Women's Tightwire Publication
From the 1960’s-1990’s, prisoners in both North America and abroad published interconnected journals through the Penal Press. Under this umbrella of publications, the women sentenced to the Kingston Prison for Women (P4W), ... -
The New Political Economy of Policing: an Exploration of the Militarization of Policing in the United States
(2015-09-14)Public perceptions of policing in the United States have drastically shifted in the last decade as images of police brutality have dominated the media. This thesis asks whether or not the militarization of policing in the ... -
Not Everyone Is a Target: An Analysis of Online Identity Crime Victimization Using Routine Activities Theory
This study examines online identity theft, consumer fraud and phishing victimization using data from a national survey of Canadians. The goal is to answer the following questions: (1) Is everyone equally likely to be a ...