Browsing School of Social Sciences and Philosophy by Title
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A social history of the Irish music industry, 1910 - 1985
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis re-inserts a number of key behind-the-scenes individuals and factors into the history of the Irish music industry, placing the commercial and artistic achievements of Ireland's popular music artists in their ... -
A sociology of institutionalisation of the 'mentally ill' in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2007)A Sociology of Institutionalisation of the ‘Mentally ill’ in Ireland. This dissertation proposes that the trajectory of the institutionalisation of ‘mentally ill’ persons in Ireland can be understood as a multi-layered ... -
A theoretical and empirical analysis of bequest motives
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A world of modal states of affairs: an account of the metaphysics of De Re modality
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Abstract objects and semantics: An essay on prospects and problems with abstraction principles as a means of justifying reference to abstract objects
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2020)The aim of this thesis is to reconsider the role that abstraction principles play, for neo-Fregeans, in establishing reference to abstract objects, in a way that brings to light both their significance and ... -
Abuse and poor care practices in Irish nursing homes : An exploratory study of staff perceptions of abuse and their experiences of reporting
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Access to banking services in Sub-Saharan Africia : essays in development economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Access to formal financial services has the potential to help transform the lives of low income individuals in Sub-Saharan African. Access and usage of saving, transaction and credit services can play a central role in ... -
Accomplishing consumer selves and relations : analysing the talk-in-interaction of preschoolers' focus groups
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2011)This study furthers sociological understanding of children as consumers by adopting a CA-infomied discourse analytical approach to examining preschoolers' talk-ininteraction around commercial material artefacts in a focus ... -
Accountability and the Democratic Mandate: Analysing Pledges, Party Competition, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2019)This dissertation examines electoral accountability and the democratic mandate by reassessing the concept of election pledges, by analysing when parties emphasise the present and past rather than the future, by classifying ... -
After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation
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After the party's over: The Irish employment model and the paradoxes of non-learning.
(European Trade Union Institute, 2012)The chapter describes the 'bubble labour market' of the final years of the Celtic Tiger. It argues that the road to the Irish crisis was prepared by four core features of the Irish model: the veto-power of Foreign Direct ... -
Ageing and the balance of care: an investigation into the relationship between and determinants of acute hospital bed and long -term care utilisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The central theme of this thesis is the effect of ageing on the balance between acute and long-term care (LTC). The thesis comprises two separate but related enquiries. The first enquiry is an econometric analysis of the ... -
Agenda building : a time-series analysis of the challenging issue priorities of parties and media during the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002)This is a study of agenda building during an election campaign, which is a dynamic process and hence calls for the application of time-series analysis. The data, from the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK., consist ... -
An Agenda for a New Ireland
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)This Review presents a narrative outlining what happened over recent decades to bring Ireland to where it is today, where exactly Ireland finds itself now, where Ireland should go into the future and what it needs to do ... -
Akrasia: Plato and the limits of Education?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2018)In this dissertation I shall argue for the following main claim: (1a) the motivational neutrality of reason. I will show that this concept reveals that, for Plato, (1b) reason is itself a necessary condition of the possibility ... -
'All I have to do is dream?' Re-greening Irish integrationism
(2010)Contemporary Ireland had moved from the discovery ? during the 1997 European Year against Racism ? that racism is indeed an Irish problem, to euphemisms such as interculturalism, transculturalism, integration and cultural ... -
All Welcome Here? Studies on Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Ethnic Minorities in Irish and European Contexts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)The main aim of this thesis is to examine prejudice, via anti-immigration sentiment, and discriminatory behaviour in Ireland and other European countries. The thesis consists of four separate papers which constitute four ... -
Alternative Scenarios for New Household Formation in Ireland
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Ambivalence and Acquiescence: Gender and the Cosmopolitan Class in Cairo
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2019)Socioeconomic and demographic transformations have led to the decreased occurrence of marriage, chipped at the link between sexuality and marriage, and increased the liminal period of ‘waithood’ in Egypt. However, there ...
