Sociology: Recent submissions
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Transition, reconstruction, and decline : a portrait of NGO development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This dissertation is a contribution to the sociology of NGOs operating in post-conflict societies. The research is based on an ethnographic study of an NGO undergoing change and transition in a rapidly changing South Africa. ... -
Globalisation, Christian churches and ecumenism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2007)This dissertation offers an exploration into the multidimensional processes of globalisation in conjunction with the ecumenical movement. It investigates how combinations of ecumenical events and practices reveal various ... -
Fluid constellation : hybrid dynamics of the Irish bottled water industry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This dissertation provides an analysis of the Irish bottled water industry by constructing a revised version of Adorno's method of immanent critique. It incorporates the negative dialectical approach advanced by Adorno and ... -
Discourses about 'foreigners' in contemporary Austria
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2005)A number of events, such as the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the opening up of Eastern Europe, the Yugoslavian crisis in the 1990s and the Austrian membership of the European Union since 1995 have contributed to an ... -
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 ... -
'Ireland: A shift towards religious equality in schools'
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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. ...
