Centre for Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Well-being of Adults who were Raised by Grandparents.
(2013-11-09)Presented in Poster Session 12 on "Parenting and Grandparenting" at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 75th Conference, San Antonio, November 6-9, 2013. -
Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education, Part II
(2014-02-06)Earlier research found only about half of 423 university psychology students correctly answered four questions involving recognizing plagiarism, and only a minority was able to rephrase a passage without producing plagiarized ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Searching for Happiness: The Importance of Social Capital.
(2011-06)After four decades of research, scholars of happiness continue to debate its causes. While it is generally agreed that a combination of internal and external factors play a role, predicting happiness well remains a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Audio Interview: Comfort: Care and Cure. An Aurora Interview with Professor of Nursing - Janice Morse- Winter 1990
(2008-05-09)Interview with Janice Morse- Winter 1990 -
Comfort: Care and Cure. An Aurora Interview with Professor of Nursing - Janice Morse- Winter 1990
(2008-04-29)An Aurora Interview with Dr. Janice Morse, professor of Nursing at University of Alberta, discussing comfort, care, and the nursing/patient relationship. Originally recored in 1990 and published by Athabasca Universities ... -
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 ... -
Consuming sustainability : critical social analyses of ecological change / edited by Debra J. Davidson, Kierstin C. Hatt, and the Northern Critical Scholars Collective.
(Organic Roots Collective. Fernwood Press, 2005) -
Nature's Revenge: reclaiming sustainability in an age of corporate globalization
(Broadview Press : Garamond Press, 2006) -
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
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The Idea of Resistance: Dependency as Historical Process
(Critical Sociology, 1989) -
Discourse and Power in Environmental Politics," in Martin O'Connor (edited) Is Sustainable Capitalism Possible?.
(Guilford Publications, 1994)