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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
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Return migration and integration : a comparison of Italian returnees from Argentina and Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)Italy has a long history of outward migration, from the I9th century through to the 1970s. In recent decades this has been reversed with a strong pattern of return migration emerging. This thesis examines and compares the ... -
Review of the Droichead Teacher Induction Pilot Programme
(ESRI and The Teaching Council, 2016) -
Ripples through the city : prising open public bike journeys and the processes of embedding a new mobility system in a city
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis is concerned with mobility and processes of social change. It sets out to prise open the journey experiences of public bike users and to determine what, if anything, is distinctive about public biking compared ... -
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?). ... -
Shareholder capitalism, normative smokescreens and the angry, insecure knowledge worker
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2010)This thesis is rooted within the discipline of industrial sociology. It makes connections between workplace structures and subjectivities within a contemporary, stock market listed, high technology and knowledge intensive ... -
The Slopes of Mount Carmel: My (Israeli) Nakba story of the 1948 Fall of Haifa
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Social policy and ageing-related care in Ireland : an exploration from a social constructionist perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2010)In the context of population ageing and increasing demands on welfare state spending, issues relating to the care of older people are at the forefront of social policy debates at national, European and international levels. ... -
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 ... -
Stigma, agency and mental health : a discourse analysis of service users talk. Ewen Scott Speed.
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2004)This thesis is a social constructionist analysis of talk produced in research interviews with people with a psychiatric diagnosis. In total ten interviews were included in an analysis of different ways of talking about the ... -
A Tale of Two Heteronormative sites: Considering Militaries and (Video)Gaming
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)This thesis explores two sites that have traditionally been associated with heteronormative masculinity (militaries and videogames). Through the use of qualitative methodologies, it seeks to unearth and examine the ways ... -
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, ... -
The economic, family and identity experiences of first- and second-generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland : a case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)This case study explores the economic, family and identity experiences of first- and second generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland. Though they are the earliest Chinese group in Ireland, their lived experiences have been ...
