The thesis was inspired from a basic observation: the lack of reflection with regards to the issues of identity, otherness and integration into western societies notwithstanding the fact that they are more and more heterogeneous. The treatment by the Quebec news media of the rea…
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Research in cognitive psychology has shown a particularly strong association between phonological working memory-usually indexed by some version of a nonword repetition task-and both first language (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in children (e.g., Gathercol…
L'objectif principal de cette recherche exploratoire est de mieux saisir les représentations sociales des rapports sociaux de sexe que vivent trois sociétés soient le Sénégal, le Mexique et le Québec, à travers les revendications pour atteindre l'égalité. La recherche se situe s…
The environmental impact of agricultural activities on water quality was studied on two sub-watersheds of the L'Assomption river in Quebec, over a 3 year period. The sub-watersheds studied were the Saint Esprit (26.1 km 2) and Desrochers (17.9 km2). Development of a methodology …
Quels sont les processus mémoriels (analogues à une mémoire sélective) par lesquels une collectivité assure les assises de la transmission identitaire à travers plusieurs générations? Alors que certains sociologues définissent la société postmoderne comme résultant de la fin des…
This thesis is about a Jewish folk-vernacular building type called the succah (plural succot). The succah is a temporary ritual-dwelling built for and lived in during the eight days of the festival of Succot. This holiday commemorates the protection provided by God for the bibli…
The Pontiac Subprovince is a Late Archean (ca. 2.7 Ga) metasedimentary-metavolanic-granitoid-gneiss terrane situated along the southeastern margin of the Superior Province in Quebec. Detailed structural study of the northwestern part of this amphibolite facies metasedimentary be…
Jacques Godbout, writer and filmmaker, always had a critical look over Quebec society in his thirty-five-year career. The object of our study is to analyse the socio-political representation of Quebec through Godbout's essays and novels. Since the early sixties, with an anticler…
Lorsqu'elle provient d'un héritage culturel aux valeurs traditionnelles, la famille immigrante se trouve confrontée à un nouveau standard de vie offert par la société d'accueil. L'abandon d'un environnement familier, le phénomène de déracinement suscité par le choc des différenc…
Employing a non-random sample survey and in-depth interview, I explore the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five Cegeps in Montreal. Being non-random, this sample is not representative of the whole population of Arab-or…
The study of public perceptions on nationalism continues to be problematic for sociology and the social sciences. For example, do the people of Catalan think of themselves first as being Catalonians, or are they Spanish or even European? Likewise, if the people have a hard time …
L'objectif de cette étude est d'évaluer les impacts de l'application de résidus produits par le désencrage du papier sur les propriétés physiques de divers types de sol. Cette recherche vise aussi à décrire, à l'aide de modèles conceptuels, la relation existant entre certains pa…
This work is a historical re-evaluation of the 1988 Outremont dispute that began as a small municipal affair involving two Hasidic congregations, Congregation Amour Pour Israel and Congregation Munchos Elozar-Munkatz. Both groups failed in their attempts to change a zoning bylaw…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
This study explores the impact of racism on the identity construction of Black Nigerian youth in Montréal. Several themes, related to socialization, family, education, integration, employment, racism, marginalization and social exclusion emerged from phenomenological interviews …
In this thesis, I examine the role of queerness, solidarity and movement in anti-war activism relating to the 2006 Lebanon War. I investigate two events called "Out Against the Occupation" that were organized during the summer of 2006 in response to the war. These events emerged…
This dissertation examines the representation of complex mother figures presented in Francophone literature. I focus my analysis on literature from three distinct Francophone regions: the French Caribbean, North Africa, and Quebec. Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972) by Sim…
Saisis par les violences d'actualité, les écrivains de la francophonie se penchent sur les questions de victimisation et de discours mystificateurs, pour éviter que ne sombre dans l'oubli l'être humain placé au centre des conflits, tel que le dirait Milan Kundera. L'être en rela…
This dissertation aims at examining the way Arab women in Quebec perceive the social representations by which they are characterized in society, the manner in which they react, and the type of identity strategies which they put in place to manage the situation. Building on the p…