Browsing Sociology (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Reconsidering Identity: The ethnic and political dimensions of hybridity among majority and Turkish youth in Germany and England
(2009)Sociological research has hitherto largely focused on majority and minority ethnic identities or citizenship identities. However, the social connections between youth are not simply ethnic dynamics but also political ... -
Reflexivity, the dilemmas of identification and an ethnographic encounter in Northern Ireland
(United Nations University Press, 2001) -
Review of the Droichead Teacher Induction Pilot Programme
(ESRI and The Teaching Council, 2016) -
School Sector Variation among Primary Schools in Ireland
(ESRI / Educate Together, 2012) -
Sexy (No, No, No): the cool and hot in popular female song
(Winter Verlag, 2009)In her article on women?s advice books, Arlie Hochschild identifies a ?cooling? of the modern female self, as intimate life is commercialised and taken over by the metaphors and reality of market forces (?Commercial Spirit?). ... -
The Slopes of Mount Carmel: My (Israeli) Nakba story of the 1948 Fall of Haifa
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A Social Portrait of People with Disabilities in Ireland
(Department of Social Protection and ESRI, 2011)This report ? A Social Portrait of People with Disabilities in Ireland ? examines the circumstances of people with disabilities in Ireland. It is one of a series of Social Portraits on vulnerable groups in Ireland commissioned ... -
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being. Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Europe and Canada. International report. Volume 1. Key findings
(WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2020)This report presents key findings from 227 441 young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in 45 countries/regions who participated in the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. The findings ... -
Talking Human Rights: How social movement activists are constructed and constrained by human rights discourse
(2013-07)Human rights discourse is central for the work of international social movements. Viewing human rights as a context-dependent and socially constructed discourse, this article investigates how it is used by a specific ... -
Teenage pregnancy, romantic love and social science - an uneasy relationship
(Blackwell, 1996)This chapter re-examines health services research on teenage pregnancy in the light of recent work in the sociology of emotion. I was prompted to write it because, having recently coordinated a study of teenage pregnancy, ... -
Theorising "Community"
(Blackhall, 2009)The story of community which is most familiar to sociologists, and probably also to most members of Irish society today, is that `community? and `modernity? are antithetical ideas. As modernisation progresses, community ... -
'There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else': Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education
(2012)International research into educational decision-making has been extensive, focusing on the way in which young people and their families assess the different options open to them. However, to what extent can we assume that ... -
Too much of a good thing? Gender, 'Concerted cultivation' and unequal achievement in primary education
(2010)It is well established that cultural and economic resources imparted to children vary significantly by social class. Literature on concerted cultivation has highlighted the extent to which out-of-school activities can ... -
Towards multicultural, multi-religious European societies? Schooling Turkish students in Britain and Germany
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Transformative Training in Soft Skills for Peacekeepers
(2019)Personnel in peacekeeping missions come from diverse organizations and nations, yet must coordinate together in each peacekeeping mission. Diversity in organizations (militaries, police forces, civil ... -
Transportation Scenarios: Looking forward and looking back in four European cities
(Irish Transport Researchers Network, 2010-09-01)The post World War II history of European urban transport in cities involves trajectories, switching points and socio-political choices. The paper contributes to our understanding of such choices by confronting the results ... -
Turkish Youth in the European Knowledge Economy: Exploring their responses to Europe and the role of social class and school dynamics for their identities
(2007)Globalisation and Europeanisation are complementary and partly overlapping processes that identify the increasingly supranational context in which political and educational systems are operating. This article explores how ...