Browsing Honours Theses by Thesis (Discipline) "Sociology"

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Bettering and balancing : experiences of maternal self-employment in urban and rural Nova Scotia

Sanders, Emma L. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-05-02)

Advancing the “push-pull debate” (Hughes, 2003), this research draws on Budig’s (2006) disadvantaged worker and class-mobility hypotheses to identify the push and pull-factors that inform mothers’ decisions to self-employ ...
Opportunity, perception, and privilege : community resources and upward mobility as perceived by Spryfield youth

Hearns, Allison C. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)

This research aims to understand the relationship between youth access to community resources in Spryfield and Spryfield youth’s perception of their chances of attaining upward socioeconomic mobility. The main research ...

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