Sociology (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Equality and Discrimination: Lessons from a Research Programme and a Conference
(ESRI, 2011)Despite legislation outlawing discrimination across the EU, inequalities between groups appear to be an enduring feature of Irish and European societies. The extent to which inequality is due to discrimination is a matter ... -
The Impact of Social Partnership on Ireland's Competitiveness
(ESRI, 2010)Social partnership has been a central facet of Irish society since 1987. In order to support economic growth, a principal objective of the partnership process has been to achieve moderate increases in wages in exchange for ... -
Public and Private Utilisation of In-Patient Beds in Irish Acute Public Hospitals
(ESRI, 2011)Health care systems in many developed countries have services financed and provided by both public and private sectors. In Ireland, though, the public/private mix is atypical: a private patient can be treated in an acute ... -
Progression in Higher Education: The Value of Multi-Variate Analysis
(ESRI, 2011)While patterns of access to, and participation, in higher education are now well established in the Irish context, less is known about progression once students have entered the third level sector. For the first time, data ... -
From high skill migration to cosmopolitan service class? Irish migration policy in a European context
(International Migration and Diaspora Studies Project, New Delhi, 2009-09)European countries are increasingly trying to develop policies to attract skilled migrants even as they are trying to restrict the entry of unskilled labour. Skilled migrants are increasingly diverse in terms of who they ... -
European Urban Public Transport: Towards a single European employment model?
(Analytica Publications., 2010-05)Publicly owned public transport contributed to the distinctive character of 20th century European cities. Today however the sector is being opened to various forms of competition. Using a comparative study of urban public ... -
Irish mobilities
(UCD Press, 2007)The `mobility turn? in sociology challenges any easy equation of `society? with a given territorial area. This approach allows us to link the study of migration with the study of other forms of mobility, to examine the ... -
Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2010
(ESRI/The Integration Centre, 04/05/2011)This Integration Monitor, the ?rst of its kind in Ireland, seeks to measure migrant integration in four life domains ? employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship. The indicators follow those ... -
Irish mobilities
(UCD Press, 2007)The `mobility turn? in sociology challenges our easy equation of `society? with a given territorial area. The chapter begins by examining the arguments involved, pointing out how much sociological theorising about `fluidity? ... -
Gender Inequality and Job Quality in Europe
(2011)In this paper, I examine whether and to which degree the quality of work and employment differs between men and women and how these gender differences are shaped by societal beliefs about `gender equality.? Using data ... -
Palestinian women from Femina Sacra to agents of active resistance
(Elsevier, 2011)Jawaher Abu-Rahmah, who was killed by tear gas on New Year Day 2001, was among many Palestinian women, in the state of Israel and the occupied territory, who, despite being victims of what I theorise as the Israeli 'racial ... -
Transportation Scenarios: Looking forward and looking back in four European cities
(Irish Transport Researchers Network, 2010-09-01)The post World War II history of European urban transport in cities involves trajectories, switching points and socio-political choices. The paper contributes to our understanding of such choices by confronting the results ... -
Non-Progression among Higher Education New Entrants: a Multivariate Analysis
(Higher Education Authority, 2010)Internationally attention is increasingly focused on how students fare after entry to college?on student experiences in relation to retention, completion and withdrawal.48 However while research is increasingly focused ... -
Introduction: Making Equality Count
(The Liffey Press, 2010)In spite of legislation outlawing discrimination across the EU, inequalities between groups appear to be an enduring feature of Irish and European societies. To what extent inequality is due to discrimination is a matter ... -
Engaging Young People? Student Experiences of the Leaving Certificate Applied
(ESRI/NCCA, 2010)Whether to have a comprehensive schooling system or to provide different tracks or curricular programmes has been a central focus of international policy debates on second-level education. The Leaving Certificate Applied ... -
No Way Back? The Dynamics of Early School Leaving
(The Liffey Press in association with The ESRI, NCCA & Department of Education & Science, 2010)Education is a key determinant of adult life chances across Western societies and is especially so in Ireland. Young people with higher levels of educational qualifications are more likely to access high quality employment ... -
Too much of a good thing? Gender, 'Concerted cultivation' and unequal achievement in primary education
(2010)It is well established that cultural and economic resources imparted to children vary significantly by social class. Literature on concerted cultivation has highlighted the extent to which out-of-school activities can ... -
'All I have to do is dream?' Re-greening Irish integrationism
(2010)Contemporary Ireland had moved from the discovery ? during the 1997 European Year against Racism ? that racism is indeed an Irish problem, to euphemisms such as interculturalism, transculturalism, integration and cultural ... -
From Catastrophe to Marginalisation: The Experiences of Somali Refugees in Ireland
(Trinity Immigration Initiative, 2010-09)This report outlines the experiences of Somali refugees in Ireland and charts the main issues of concern, including migration, settlement, housing, education, the young generation. The report ends with a set of recommendations. -
The mirror stage of movement intellectuals? Jewish criticism of Israel and its relationship to a developing social movement
(2009)This article explores the strengths and limitations of movement intellectuals? theorisation of their movement and its terrain of activism. It looks at four published collections of Jewish writers critical of Israel and ...
