Sociology: Recent submissions
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Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2012
(ESRI/The Integration Centre, 26/06/2013)This year?s Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2012, launched today, uses a range of indicators to measure different aspects of immigrant inclusion in Irish society. Key Findings: The consistent poverty rate ... -
High Stakes Testing and Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in the Republic of Ireland
(2012)There is now a well developed literature on the impact of high stakes testing on teaching approaches and student outcomes. However, the student perspective has been neglected in much research. This article draws on a mixed ... -
'There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else': Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education
(2012)International research into educational decision-making has been extensive, focusing on the way in which young people and their families assess the different options open to them. However, to what extent can we assume that ... -
Distance Effects, Social Class and the Decision to Participate in Higher Education in Ireland
(2012)While a number of international studies have attempted to assess the influence of geographic accessibility on the decision to participate in higher education, this issue has not been addressed in detail in an Irish context. ... -
Ethnicity and Nationality in the Irish Labour Market: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Module 2010
(The Equality Authority and the ESRI, 16/01/2013)According to a report published today (Wednesday 16th January) by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the Equality Authority, immigrants did not fare as well on average as Irish nationals in the Irish ... -
Immigration of International Students to the EU: Ireland
(Report prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Home Affairs & published by the ESRI, 17/12/2012)This study provides an overview of the immigration policies that are being implemented regarding international students. This report is particularly timely in Ireland, as it follows a period of significant policy activity ... -
School Sector Variation among Primary Schools in Ireland
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Understanding Childhood Deprivation in Ireland
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Analysing the Experience of Discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Module 2010
(The Equality Authority and the ESRI, 14/12/2012)In 2010, 12% of adults in Ireland said that they were discriminated against in the preceding two years, according to a new report published today (Friday 14 December) by the ESRI and the Equality Authority. The highest ... -
Disability in the Irish Labour Market: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Module 2010
(The Equality Authority and the ESRI, 16/01/2013)In 2010, working-age people with a disability were less than half as likely to be active in the labour market (36% compared to 77% of other adults) and had a considerably higher unemployment rate (22% compared to 16% of ... -
Work and Poverty in Ireland: An Analysis of CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2004-2010
(ESRI and Social Inclusion Division of Department of Social Protection, 11/12/2012)a new research report on Work and Poverty in Ireland by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) is published. The report measures changes in the level of jobless households (households where adults spend less ... -
Europe's Crisis: Market competition instead of social bonds
(Tasc, 2013)Europe's crisis is not just an economic crisis, but a crisis of social inclusion and social cohesion. This is in turn the result of the failure of the European Union to live up to the promise of the European Social Model -
'Vengeance is sweet': a herdswoman's recompense in the music of the Mantaro Valley
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After the party's over: The Irish employment model and the paradoxes of non-learning.
(European Trade Union Institute, 2012)The chapter describes the 'bubble labour market' of the final years of the Celtic Tiger. It argues that the road to the Irish crisis was prepared by four core features of the Irish model: the veto-power of Foreign Direct ... -
'World music or migrant music? The global networks of popular music performance'
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Plan, Market and Money: a Study of Circulation in Peru
(University of Sussex, 1982)This thesis reanalyses a paradigm colonial encounter, that of the' Spanish conquest of Inca Peru, in the light of the theory that circulation and money are themselves class processes, which cannot be reduced to market' ... -
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?). ... -
From Leaving Certificate to Leaving School: A Longitudinal Study of Sixth Year Students
(The Liffey Press in association with ESRI, NCCA and Department of Education & Skills, 2011)Current debates about senior cycle education in Ireland have raised a number of crucial questions: What effect does the Leaving Certificate exam have on young people?s learning experiences? What helps students to do well ... -
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 ...
