Browsing Centre for Social Sciences by Title
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Discourse and Power in Environmental Politics: Public Hearings on a Bleached Kraft Pulp Mill in Alberta
(Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 1991-10) -
The Gift of Theory: A Critique of the Histoire de Mentalite
(Social History, 1985) -
Globalizing `Global Studies’: Vehicle for Disciplinary and Regional Bridges?
(De Gruyter, 2008-07)The most contentious and critical questions of contemporary times relate to the nature, scope, impact and conceptualization of globalization. The intensified impact of globalization and the acceptance that it is a contemporary ... -
How well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism?
(IRRODL, 2014)This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly ... -
The Idea of Resistance: Dependency as Historical Process
(Critical Sociology, 1989) -
In Search of the Elusive: Traditional Native Prescribed Burning in the Northeastern Wood Buffalo National Park Area
(1989)This project was designed to explore the traditional use of a prescribed burning technique by native people in the Ft. Smith - Ft. Fitzgerald area. Previous research in northwestern Alberta had demonstrated that resident ... -
Invisible Women in History and Global Studies: Reflections from an Archival Research Project
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-01)This article questions the continuing invisibility of the significant scale of the involvement of women in historical movements/moments. The focus is on Mahatma Gandhi-led Civil Disobedience movement (1930-33), which was ... -
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
(2013-03-05)This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half ... -
The "Jarvis Proof": Management of Bison, Management of Bison Hunters, and the Development of a Literary Tradition
(Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, 1990) -
Jock Talk, Goldfish, Horse Logging,and Star Wars Debunking Industry's Green PR
(Alternatives Journal, 1997) -
The Land Agreement of 1842 at Little Red River
(Alberta History, 1999)On May 1, 1842, an agreement was signed at Fort Vermilion by five members of the Beaver Indian Nation and by William Shaw, the Hudson's Bay Company clerk in charge. As a "mark of [their} regard and attachment," the Beaver ... -
Landscape-Scale Prioritization Process for Private Land Conservation in Alberta
(2013-11-12)There are 12 conservation land trust organizations (CLTOs) in the province of Alberta, Canada that actively steward land. Together they have protected over 1.09 million hectares of land. Using in-depth interview data ... -
List of Recommendations and Strategies for a Balanced Approach to Supporting Academic Integrity
(2023)Maintaining academic integrity is a growing concern for higher education, increasingly so due to the pivot to remote learning in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We canvassed students, faculty, and tutors at an ... -
lnfant Mother Attachment in Separated and Married Families
(Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 1997)Considers two contrasting predictions about the effects of parental marital separation on infants' attachment to their mothers. Behavioral resistance of infants to stressors; Behavior of infants to anxious attachments; ... -
Local-Sized Democracy
(The Parkland Institute, 2002)Political struggle at the local level is out of fashion. In today’s increasingly “globalized” world, appeals to the local can often appear parochial and tradition-bound. Determining whether effective political responses ... -
"Mapping Sustainability" in Nature's Revenge ed. Josee Johnson, Mike Gismondi, James Goodman
(Broadview Press : Garamond Press, 2006) -
Maternal Accounts of the Costs and Benefits of Life Experiences After Parental Separation
(Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2000)Recent analyses both question the assumption that parental separation only has negative effects on families and suggest that attention should be paid to the diversity of experiences post divorce. The latter may be ... -
Merchants, Mining, and Concessions on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast: Reassessing the American Presence, 1893-1912 Penultimate versions before editing
(Journal of Latin American Studies, 2002) -
Music preferences and civic activism of young people
(Journal of Youth Studies, 2008-08-01)This study examines the relationship between music preferences and civic activism among 182 participants aged 14-24 years. Our analyses show that participants who regularly listened to certain music genres such as ... -
Music preferences and young people's attitudes towards spending and saving.
(2010-12)We aimed to find patterns among young people’s music preferences in relation to their attitudes towards saving or spending money. Previous research found that certain music genres (e.g. rap and dance) are associated with ...