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Factors affecting women's caregiving decision-making to accept or decline formal and/or informal support
(1999)
This thesis examines the social conditions and factors that influenced
a group of women caregivers to accept or decline support in the provision
of care to terminally-ill family members or relatives. I discuss the ...
Sociological investigation of "The Simpsons" with respect to the institution of education
(1997)
Operating from the premise that episodic television comedy The
Simpsons is perceived more as a living culture than as a symbolic
artifact, this thesis uses a qualitative approach to examine the
program's education system ...
Women in leadership in health care and education
(1998)
This phenomenological study is an examination of the
experiences of eight women from Northwestern Ontario working in
leadership positions in health care or education. The data was
obtained from two interviews with each ...
Internet use of linguistic minorities within a dominant culture : a case study of Francophones in Northwestern Ontario / by Nicole Corbett.
(2007)
Outside the province of Québec, Francophones are often marginalized with regard to availability of products in their language. The Internet, a growing phenomenon, is marketed as a tool, which provides information and ...
Calculated risk : constructions of risk in biomedical, feminist, and lay perceptions of conception-assisting technologies
(1996)
This thesis explores how different social and political
interests frame interpretations and assessments of the risks of
conception-assisting technologies among biomedical clinicians,
infertile women seeking treatment, ...
Media representations of white supremacy groups : a content analysis of two Ontario newspapers, 1977 to 1992
(1999)
This thesis investigates how the print media represents white supremacy groups. More
specifically, articles concerned with white supremacy groups are examined from The Globe and
Mail and The Toronto Star from 1977 to ...
French Canadian adolescents in a minority milieu
(1997)
This inquiry describes the lived experience of minority francophone adolescents in Thunder Bay, Ontario. A
snowball sampling approach was used to recruit 22 participants for interviews where they were asked to talk
about ...