Students who have completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Sociology/Anthropology have a wide variety or research interests. Listed below are the titles of the various thesis projects our students have completed over the last thirty-five years.
If you are interested in reviewing any of the listed thesis projects, please contact Marisa Grant.
Arnold, C.(1997). Why a Person on a Criminal Path Ceases Committing Further Crimes. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Doucette, C. (1990). Diversion: Widening the Net at the Community Level. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Greenough, J. (1997). Religion and Crime Against Johovah’s Witnesses. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Ferguson, M. (1995). Exit, Loyalty, Voice and/or Silent Action in the Field of Licensed Day Care: Strategies of Staff Response to Problematic Working Conditions. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Grant, J. (2017). Conceptualizing Contemporary Commons. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Josey, T. (1996). The State of the Unions. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Jourdain, K. (1985). Executive Women & Work in the Public and Private Sectors. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Levy, T. (1986). Employment Barriers to the Visually & Hearing Impaired. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Parks, C. (1995). Guildmaking: Layers of Constraint, Patches of Resistance. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Steele, D. (1987). Women and Part-time Work: Examination of an Exploitative Relationship. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Curtis, D. (1991). The Divorce Experience in Nova Scotia: Economic Consequences for Women. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Enns, L. (1995). Women to the Back of the Class! A Sociological View of Gender Dynamics in the Classroom. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Forsey, I. (2005). Empowering Poor Women through Self-Organization and Synergy: The Case of the Self-Employed Women’s Association. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Gailey, N. (2015). Self, Other, and Significant Others in Memoirs of Gender Transition. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Gorlick-Trowse, S. (1994). Deconstructing Community Care Policy: Community Care for the Elderly and the Implications for Women. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Ibiama, I. (2021). How do Nigerian and Ghanaian female students at MSVU perceive Christianity’s influence on their lives as women? A thematic analysis of a focus group. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Johnstone, C. (1987). So Take Me to Court – The Cost of Separation and Divorce as Perceived by Custodial Mothers. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Jones, L.A. (1997). Women and Patterns of Maternal Knowledge. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Matheson, G. (2012). Coming In: An Exploration of Heterosexuality and Hegemonic Masculinity. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Sweeney, V. (1992). Older & Lesbian: A Triple Jeopardy or an Overlooked Advantage. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Swinamer, M. (1994). Children of Lesbians: The Lesbian Family Socialization Experience. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Wile, C. (2002). Transition & Change: An Examination of Family Textbooks and Literature on Men’s Roles and Involvement in Childrearing 1950-2001. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Yerxa, J. (1998). Women Futuristic Chains; A Feminist Analysis of Electric Monitoring in Canada. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Davis, E. (2007). Beautiful Emancipation: Pro-Anorexic Websites and Community online. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Matheson, A. (2015). Medical cure or Instrument of Genocide: An Exploration of the Controversial Ethics of Paediatric Cochlear Implantation and the Social Construction of Disability. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Hubbard, C. (2021). Online Anti-Indigenous Narratives of Nova Scotia Lobster Dispute. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
MacEwen, C. (2012). Continued Colonialist Disempowerment: Commercialization and Appropriation of the ‘Ecological Indian’ Image in North America. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
McCarney, K. (2015). Keeping the ‘Other’ in Their Place: Exploring ‘Bias’ as Cultural Hegemony Through a Comparative Study of Print Media Treatment of Two Supreme Court Rulings on Indigenous Rights. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Phillips, N. (2014). Understanding the Repercussions of the Centralization Policy on Mi’kmaw between 1920 and 1960. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Wood, J. (2015). Mi’kmaq Land Stewardship: Exploring the Relationship between Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Environment. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Kay, E. (2016). Visual methodologies building social awareness, solidarity & change: a critical engagement of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
McConnell, R. (1995). Bronislaw Malinowski’s Place in the History of Anthropological Fieldwork
Methods. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Crane, M. (2009). Power and the World Food System. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Shreenan, P. (1988). Exposing Class Cleavages in Western Canada. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Chisholm, B. (1999). Franz Boas and the Concept of Race. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Hayman, S. (1989). Child Care Policy on Canada. Honours Thesis, Mount Saint Vincent University.