Honours student Grace Chen explores new frontiers of community engagement in Vancouver’s Chinatown
Her thesis looks at how Chinatown navigates physical threats to existence alongside the use of online spaces as effective community spaces.
What are Calgarians’ impressions of densification policies? Zoe Duquette investigates in her honours thesis
Zoe analyzes public engagement with the process to rezone low density districts to understand the public’s perceptions of densification.
Julia Moniz-Lecce investigates racial disparities in homeschooling across Canada in her honours thesis
Julia’s honours thesis explores the unique motivations and challenges that racialized families encounter when choosing to homeschool.
Emma Dierkes explores how merit functions in non-capitalist regimes in her honours thesis
Emma’s thesis explores how merit is understood in education systems, specifically in socialist post-war East Germany.
Honours student Kyle Baanders examines the self-regulation of geek and masculine online communities
Kyle’s research uses ethnographical tools to understand how these communities regulate their own values and members.
Honours student Rowen Francisco explores the potential of queer friendship to disrupt mononormativity
Their research used in-depth interviews to explore how queer conceptions of friendship can be used to disrupt patriarchal ideologies.
Yujia Huang investigates corporal punishment in Chinese schools in her honours thesis
Her research examines how social class and past experience with corporal punishment impacts people’s understanding of it.
Honours student Ayden Clarke examines challenges facing worker cooperatives in BC
Ayden’s paper explores the worker cooperative support ecosystem in BC, attempting to determine the challenges that these organizations face.
Alexander Murphy investigates how non-binary transmasculine people enact masculinity in honours thesis
We spoke to Alexander about his research and what he’s learned so far through his study’s qualitative, semi-structured interviews.
Register for SOCI 495A/599C: Demography of Disasters in Term 2
Professor Ethan Raker will be teaching SOCI 495A/599C: Demography of Disaster on Mondays from 2-5 PM in Term 2.