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Capital, Capabilities and Culture: A Human Development Approach to Student and School Transformation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2018)The aim of this research is to apply the capability approach as an evaluative lens through which to explore the range of capabilities that emerged over a three-year period, through a longitudinal study with a group of ... -
The Case for 'Trust' as a Key Soft Skill for Peacekeepers
(2019)This article uses the case study of the unifil mission in South Lebanon to explore the role of trust in facilitating or obstructing inter-organizational cooperation and local ownership in a traditional UN peacekeeping ... -
The Challenge of Migration and Europeanisation: A Comparison of Citizenship Education in Britain, Germany, Greece and Ireland
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The Challenge of Migration: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe
(2010)In several European countries, 10% or more of the student population now has a migrant background; and some countries are facing this phenomenon for the very first time. There is growing concern that students with an ... -
The Changing Workplace
(ESRI, 2011)How are Irish workplaces changing? Recent reports give a detailed picture, based on two nationally representative surveys ? one of employers and another of employees ? carried out in 2009. These surveys replicate many ... -
Child and adolescent digital use and well-being outcomes: evidence from an Irish birth-cohort study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rapid digitalization of society over the past decades has fundamentally changed how people socialize, work, and play. Subsequently, children and adolescents’ use of digital technologies has increased rapidly, facilitated ... -
Child Care Time, Parents' Well-Being, and Gender: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
(2016)This study used data from the ‘Well Being Module’ of the 2010 American Time Use Survey (N = 1699) to analyze how parents experience child care time in terms of meaning and stress levels. Multivariate multilevel regressions ... -
Choices and Challenges: Moving from Junior Cycle to Senior Cycle Education
(The Liffey Press in association with ESRI, NCCA and Department of Education & Skills, 09/09/2011)This study examines the experiences of young people as they make the transition from junior cycle (lower secondary) to senior cycle (upper secondary) education. It is part of a series of reports which explore stu- dent ... -
Citizenship, colonialism and self-determination Dublin in the United Kingdom 1885-1918
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 1988) -
Co-producing development : participation, power and conflict in the upgrading of informal settlements in Nairobi
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)This thesis analyses how social and political conflicts among different social actors shape the implementation of slum-upgrading programmes. The research focuses on the first two years (2008-2010) of the implementation of ... -
Community and drugs : a case study in community conflict in the inner city of Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 1993) -
Confronting global capital: Trade union organising for higher wages in Cambodia's garment and footwear industry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2019)After almost a decade of declining wages in Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry, worker incomes have steadily improved since 2013. Minimum wages increased from 80USD a month to 170USD a month in just 4 years, an average ... -
Considering the work in workplace bullying : a sociological approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2011)In recent years, bullying has come to be established as a significant issue for contemporary workplaces, in Ireland as elsewhere. Our research knowledge is largely psychologically-based, with many studies focusing on the ... -
Constructing Identities: The ethno-national and nationalistic identities of white and Turkish students in two English secondary schools
(2008)This article investigates how 15-year-old white and Turkish students in two Inner London comprehensive schools, one in a predominantly working-class area (Millroad School) and the other in a more middle-class environment ... -
Contested boundaries, contested places : an exploration of Ireland's contribution to Natura 2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2009) -
Coprolalia and Shibboleths : musical and textual interaction in the Breakcore room
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2007)This thesis is an ethnographic account of a musically oriented online milieu. It draws primarily on discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, semantic anthropology, and sociolinguistics to critically explore the interaction ...