Sociology: Recent submissions
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“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. ... -
Measurement Invariance of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index: Evidence from 15 European Countries
(2022)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO)-5 Well-Being Index has been used in many epidemiological studies to assess adolescent mental well-being. However, cross-country comparisons of this instrument among adolescents ... -
Gender Differences in Bullying Reflect Societal Gender Inequality: A Multilevel Study With Adolescents in 46 Countries
(2022)Purpose Social patterns in bullying show consistent gender differences in adolescent perpetration and victimization with large cross-national variations. Previous research shows associations between societal gender ... -
Culture Goes To War: A Critical Analysisof the Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2022)From 2003 onwards, faced with burgeoning insurgencies and widespread violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, US military policy underwent a cultural turn . This shift in policy emphasised the need for the collection of knowledge ... -
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 ... -
Trust and Cooperation in International Peacekeeping: Approaches to Assessing Trust in a High-Risk Networked Environment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)Trust has been described as an essential social lubricant (Luhmann, 1979) and one of the most important synthetic forces within society (Simmel, 1950). Trust acts as a reducer of social complexity and is often viewed ... -
A Tale of Two Heteronormative sites: Considering Militaries and (Video)Gaming
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)This thesis explores two sites that have traditionally been associated with heteronormative masculinity (militaries and videogames). Through the use of qualitative methodologies, it seeks to unearth and examine the ways ... -
Institutionalised, Parentless, and Racialised as Other: Understanding the Formation of a Racialised Self for Women of African-Irish Descent who grew up in the Irish Industrial School System
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)This research investigated the identity(ies) construction of 15 women of mixed African-Irish descent, with white Irish mothers and African fathers, who as children grew up in the Irish institutional care system in the ... -
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 ... -
Emerging digital generations? Impacts of child digital use on mental and socioemotional well-being across two cohorts in Ireland, 2007 2018
(2021)Despite the growing body of literature on how digital technologies impact child well-being, previous research has provided little evidence on recent digital trends. This paper examines the patterns and effects of digital ... -
Learning: Operational and Educational Effectiveness Report
(2019)This deliverable outlines the development of the methodology to assess the learning through GAP by personnel from end user organizations in a training environment (Task 5.4) and the implementation of this methodology (Task ... -
Gaming for Peace Interviews
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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 ... -
Curriculum Alignment between the IB DP and National Systems: Switzerland
(2014)With IB programmes available across the world in diverse educational landscapes, alignment with national educational standards is important. This project aims to provide an empirical analysis of the alignment ... -
Curriculum Alignment between the IB DP and National Systems: Germany
(2014)With IB programmes available across the world in diverse educational landscapes, alignment with national educational standards is important. This project aims to provide an empirical analysis of the alignment ... -
All Welcome Here? Studies on Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Ethnic Minorities in Irish and European Contexts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)The main aim of this thesis is to examine prejudice, via anti-immigration sentiment, and discriminatory behaviour in Ireland and other European countries. The thesis consists of four separate papers which constitute four ... -
New patterns of migration and higher education in Ireland: What are the implications?
(Springer, 2020)This chapter discusses the changing demographic situation in recent decades as Ireland moved from being a country with a long tradition of emigration to one of net immigration. The pace of social change in Ireland is ... -
The Challenge of Migration and Europeanisation: A Comparison of Citizenship Education in Britain, Germany, Greece and Ireland
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Post-School Transitions in Ireland: A case study of Russian speaking students
(2019)This article examines the post-school pathways of Russian-speaking students in Ireland after completing secondary education; the importance of personal and institutional factors in shaping their transition process, and the ...
