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School Sector Variation among Primary Schools in Ireland
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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 ... -
The environment in the public sphere : democracy and discourse in the genetically modified organism debate in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2002)This thesis is an exploration of the possibilities of democratising environmental decision-making in Ireland. A specific attempt at enhancing dem ocratic involvement in policy decision-making is analysed. The case study ... -
The introduction of Solution-Focused Therapy to Irish social workers : a case study of innovation diffusion
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The part-time soul : case studies in the management of culture and flexibility in Irish retail
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2000)Post-modem organisational analysis claims to have identified a post-modern organisational form. This new organisational form is alleged to be non-bureaucratic, flexible, opaque in organisation and to involve the management ... -
The principles and discourses of the social model : exploring their use and usefulness in the Irish context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)The principles and discourses of the social model challenge the individualised interpretation of disability, redefining it as social oppression. Within the last three decades this model has successfully translated the ... -
The responses of hospital nurses in Ireland and Southern Italy to the rationalisation of public health care, 1985-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2004)This thesis seeks to address three interrelated research questions regarding changes in the funding, organisation and management of the health service in the Republic of Ireland and Southern Italy over the past two decades. ... -
The small island scarcely heard : Ireland's multiple integrations and identities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2001)This dissertation develops a theory of loose multiple integrations that is applied to the Republic of Ireland. The theory focuses on the importance of analysing simultaneous loose integration processes on national and ... -
The spiralling swallow : a sociological auto-ethnography of "eating disorders(s)" and "recovery"
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This thesis is a sociological auto-ethnography of "eating disorder(s)" and "recovery".Using creative methodologies, I have created an intersubjective, poly-vocal account of bodies in encounter with medicine. I position ...
