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Originally Posted by Buster
Just noticed this. You're silly.
In Canada (and elsewhere), especially informally, "thesis" and "dissertation" can be used interchangeably.
In my experience, Americans tend to get a bit more hung up on applying "thesis" to Masters level work, and "dissertation" to doctoral work.
In either case, considering it's in Sociology, and witnessing the quality of the work, I hardly would consider it worthy of either term.
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Wut?
I have never heard that before, with the exception of francophone universities. The thesis is used to describe the master's paper, because it focuses on making a research statement and conduction a literature review to support the thesis statement. There is seldom original content nor actual research on test subjects conducted during a thesis project. The dissertation, on the other hand, has a much greater scope and stringent process to follow. There is normally a requirement for original research, and a requirement of expansion of the knowledge base of the science of study. The two terms are not interchangeable.
Since you are such an expert and have read the paper, Can you please summarize the content of Aslan's dissertation? Should be pretty simple for someone that is an accomplished Reddit academic like yourself.