Sociology: Recent submissions
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Towards multicultural, multi-religious European societies? Schooling Turkish students in Britain and Germany
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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 ... -
Identity, categorisation, citizenship and the 'Peace Process' in Côte d'Ivoire
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis explores the practice of categorization of identities and determination of citizenship within the context of the peace process in Côte d’Ivoire. It is based on interviews with government officials, actors from ... -
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 ... -
The economic, family and identity experiences of first- and second-generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland : a case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)This case study explores the economic, family and identity experiences of first- and second generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland. Though they are the earliest Chinese group in Ireland, their lived experiences have been ... -
Developing science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity through networks : the case of a development network organisation in Mozambique
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)Science, technology and innovation (STI) is once again high on the international development agenda (Chataway et al, 2005; Leach and Scoones, 2006). Some authors have highlighted the role of new networked forms of organisation ... -
A social history of the Irish music industry, 1910 - 1985
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis re-inserts a number of key behind-the-scenes individuals and factors into the history of the Irish music industry, placing the commercial and artistic achievements of Ireland's popular music artists in their ... -
In search of legitimacy : an exploration of the Gülen Movement's strategic engagements in the Western context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis analyses the strategic engagements of the Gülen Movement (GM) in the Western context. The GM is a Turkish-originated Islamic movement named after the controversial and charismatic Turkish Islamic scholar, ... -
Accomplishing consumer selves and relations : analysing the talk-in-interaction of preschoolers' focus groups
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2011)This study furthers sociological understanding of children as consumers by adopting a CA-infomied discourse analytical approach to examining preschoolers' talk-ininteraction around commercial material artefacts in a focus ... -
Transformative Training in Soft Skills for Peacekeepers
(2019)Personnel in peacekeeping missions come from diverse organizations and nations, yet must coordinate together in each peacekeeping mission. Diversity in organizations (militaries, police forces, civil ... -
The Case for 'Trust' as a Key Soft Skill for Peacekeepers
(2019)This article uses the case study of the unifil mission in South Lebanon to explore the role of trust in facilitating or obstructing inter-organizational cooperation and local ownership in a traditional UN peacekeeping ... -
Gaming for Peace: Gender Awareness Training and the Polish Military
(2018)Despite regulatory and legal changes, women are persistently underrepresented in military organisations on peacekeeping missions. This article argues that part of the reason for this can be found in persistent stereotypical ... -
The environment in the public sphere : democracy and discourse in the genetically modified organism debate in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2002)This thesis is an exploration of the possibilities of democratising environmental decision-making in Ireland. A specific attempt at enhancing dem ocratic involvement in policy decision-making is analysed. The case study ... -
European Union supra state feminism : redistributional gender equality policy and training in Europe and Ireland, 1971-1997
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2001)This study is located within debates about the impact of second wave feminism on European gender contracts. Its particular focus is the development of EU supra state feminism in the form of gender equality policy since the ... -
Towards a sociology of art collections : the making of an art collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2003)This thesis offers an exploration into the making of an art collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Its aim is to set out a distinct methodology for a sociological approach to the study of art collecting. ... -
Ambivalence and Acquiescence: Gender and the Cosmopolitan Class in Cairo
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2019)Socioeconomic and demographic transformations have led to the decreased occurrence of marriage, chipped at the link between sexuality and marriage, and increased the liminal period of ‘waithood’ in Egypt. However, there ... -
Building counter culture : the radical praxis of social movement milieux
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2000)This thesis falls into two parts. The first (chapters one to three) states the problematic of the research, develops a critique of the dominant "social movements" literature as unhelpful for understanding the counter culture ... -
The small island scarcely heard : Ireland's multiple integrations and identities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2001)This dissertation develops a theory of loose multiple integrations that is applied to the Republic of Ireland. The theory focuses on the importance of analysing simultaneous loose integration processes on national and ... -
The Universal Surname : a theoretical-empirical enquiry into the relationship between globalization and sameness
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2007)The dissertation The Universal Surname - A Theoretical-Empirical Enquiry Into The Relationship Between Globalization and Sameness has developed a theoretical-empirical model of globalization and cultural sameness. The ... -
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 ...
