Sociology (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Food, obesity and families : practices in Irish households with young children
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2010)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the socially constructed meaning of food, ‘healthy eating’, and obesity within the context of family food practices in a sample of middle-class Irish families with young children. ... -
Diaspora, gender and narrative journeys : Italian migrant women in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)Diaspora, Gender And Narrative Journeys: Italian Migrant Women In Ireland. This study concerns Italian migrant women in Ireland, who are the most invisible subjects of a forgotten yet ‘exceptional’ history of migration. ... -
Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism : a case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis presents a sociological case study of Bosnian migrants in Ireland who are involved in post-refugee transnationalism. The focus of the thesis is on a group of programme refugees who arrived in Ireland two decades ... -
Family, religion, and identity in the Pakistani diaspora : a case study of young Pakistani men in Dublin and Boston
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)In recent years, Western countries have received Pakistanis as religious fanatics and detrimental to national as well as international safety and politics. Pakistani communities in diaspora have, in turn, received negative ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An analysis of the labour market integration of immigrants : examining the role of gender, ethnicity, discrimination and recession
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2017)This thesis focuses on the labour market integration of migrants between 2004 and 2011, a period of unprecedented change in Irish society. The work analyses some of the factors that may influence migrants’ labour market ... -
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. ... -
An exploratory longitudinal acculturation study with Polish immigrant teenagers in Ireland : parental and children's perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)The objective of this research project was to understand how young immigrants adjust to their new socio-cultural context, and to contribute to the existing understanding of the social phenomena of acculturation, on the ... -
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 ... -
Illusion and disillusion in a development organisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis focuses on a development donor organisation in the Republic of Ireland which embarked upon a project to become a learning organisation with a team from Trinity College Dublin. This thesis explores an area that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ...
