Browsing Sociology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Liquid citizens? Towards a sociology of lesbian and gay intimate citizenship in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)In this thesis, I argue that we can usefully explore Irish sexuality within the emergent frame of analysis that is known as sexual or intimate citizenship. While 'citizenship' has tended to be theorised as pertaining to ... -
Longitudinal studies on variation by socio-economic position in child conduct, academic outcomes and curricular choice in the Irish context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)Using unique, nationally representative longitudinal data from Cohort98 of Growing Up in Ireland (N=6,039; 51.2% female; ages 9-17), this thesis evaluates socio-economic inequalities in educational development, decision-making ... -
Migration, mothering and schooling: a case study of Baltic mothers in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)This thesis explores the parental involvement of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian mothers within and outside of formal schooling in Ireland. The number of Baltic families has significantly increased in Ireland in the last ... -
Mobilising social network support: the case of Polish migrant mothers in Dublin
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)As international mobility has increased over the last decades, so has research on transnational families and transnational care, gaining a more prominent place in family and migration research. Following the expansion of ... -
Moving across countries, labour markets and the life cycle : Polish and Central / Eastern European migration to Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis investigates East to West migration specifically looking at new patterns and forms of ‘middle-class’ migration and more general labour market outcomes within which the former may be positioned. The study is ... -
Network structure, institutional frameworks, and social change : the case of nonprofits that support asylum seekers in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2017)The steep rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland since the late 1990s has presented a novel set of challenges to the Republic’s nonprofit sector. Legal instruments and statutory policy that have developed ... -
Nigerian Taxi Drivers in Dublin: The Preferred Narrative Versus the Lived Experience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)The liberalisation of the Irish taxi industry in 2000 coincided with the Irish State becoming a place of net immigration for the first time in its history (Ruhs, 2005). Over the following decade, Dublin's taxi fleet increased ... -
On the cutting edge? : Marking gender, embodiment and knowledge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2006)In this thesis I use creative methodologies - a “new writing” (Denzin, 2003: 118) strategy - to explore body marking practices (‘self-injury’ and body modification) in the context of gendered embodiment. The overarching ... -
Online public sphere or communicative capital? : blogs and new sites in Ireland, 2010 - 13
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2016)This thesis examines online discourse on news and opinion websites based in the Irish Republic over the period 2010-2013. It arose from an absence of literature on both online communications practices here and the rapid ... -
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon : from co-ethnics to a racialized minority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This study employs critical race theory to understand, explain, and theorize the exclusion and racialization of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There exists vast and diverse literature on the exclusion of Palestinians in ... -
“People would have died.” How the involvement of community pharmacy in COVID-19 vaccination was delayed: A multi-method policy implementation case study of Ireland (Dec 2020 to June 2021)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2022)Introduction: When the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme began in Ireland, there was a delay in involving community pharmacy despite its role being outlined in the associated Strategy and Implementation Plan. ... -
Performing Distance : the response of Irish professionals to immigrants and immigration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)Literature on immigration in Ireland has focused on analyses of rates and flows, the impact of labour migration, immigrants’ experiences of racism and integration, and asylum/refugee studies. Empirical work on the response ... -
Policing and the youth question : civil society and the state in the urban periphery in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This thesis is an exploration of the relations between state and civil society actors involved in the local governance of youth crime and disorder in urban peripheral settings in Ireland. The dissertation aims to develop ... -
Polish migrants in Ireland : migration patterns, social networks and 'community'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2011)This is a study on young Polish professional migrants currently living and working in the Greater Dublin Area who are employed in higher skilled and middle level jobs. It focuses on the migration process, changing mobility ... -
The post-school pathways of Russian-speaking students in Ireland: a longitudinal study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2018)This thesis explores the post-school pathways of Russian-speaking young people in Ireland. In the previous two decades, Ireland has experienced exponential growth in immigration. This is due to several co-occurring processes. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ...
