Sociology: Recent submissions
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An exploratory longitudinal acculturation study with Polish immigrant teenagers in Ireland : parental and children's perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)The objective of this research project was to understand how young immigrants adjust to their new socio-cultural context, and to contribute to the existing understanding of the social phenomena of acculturation, on the ... -
Return migration and integration : a comparison of Italian returnees from Argentina and Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)Italy has a long history of outward migration, from the I9th century through to the 1970s. In recent decades this has been reversed with a strong pattern of return migration emerging. This thesis examines and compares the ... -
Ripples through the city : prising open public bike journeys and the processes of embedding a new mobility system in a city
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis is concerned with mobility and processes of social change. It sets out to prise open the journey experiences of public bike users and to determine what, if anything, is distinctive about public biking compared ... -
Illusion and disillusion in a development organisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis focuses on a development donor organisation in the Republic of Ireland which embarked upon a project to become a learning organisation with a team from Trinity College Dublin. This thesis explores an area that ... -
The part-time soul : case studies in the management of culture and flexibility in Irish retail
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2000)Post-modem organisational analysis claims to have identified a post-modern organisational form. This new organisational form is alleged to be non-bureaucratic, flexible, opaque in organisation and to involve the management ... -
Portability of Social Protection in the European Union: A Transformation of National Welfare Systems?
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Coprolalia and Shibboleths : musical and textual interaction in the Breakcore room
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2007)This thesis is an ethnographic account of a musically oriented online milieu. It draws primarily on discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, semantic anthropology, and sociolinguistics to critically explore the interaction ... -
Stigma, agency and mental health : a discourse analysis of service users talk. Ewen Scott Speed.
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2004)This thesis is a social constructionist analysis of talk produced in research interviews with people with a psychiatric diagnosis. In total ten interviews were included in an analysis of different ways of talking about the ... -
The responses of hospital nurses in Ireland and Southern Italy to the rationalisation of public health care, 1985-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2004)This thesis seeks to address three interrelated research questions regarding changes in the funding, organisation and management of the health service in the Republic of Ireland and Southern Italy over the past two decades. ... -
Social policy and ageing-related care in Ireland : an exploration from a social constructionist perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2010)In the context of population ageing and increasing demands on welfare state spending, issues relating to the care of older people are at the forefront of social policy debates at national, European and international levels. ... -
Vigilantes, anti-drug movements, and community empowerment : a Dublin case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2006)The Dublin anti-drug movement was a response to the escalation of the overt heroin problem in inner-city areas. In the early 1980’s, Concerned Parents Against Drugs (CPAD) became a citywide network whose intention was to ... -
The principles and discourses of the social model : exploring their use and usefulness in the Irish context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)The principles and discourses of the social model challenge the individualised interpretation of disability, redefining it as social oppression. Within the last three decades this model has successfully translated the ... -
On the cutting edge? : Marking gender, embodiment and knowledge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2006)In this thesis I use creative methodologies - a “new writing” (Denzin, 2003: 118) strategy - to explore body marking practices (‘self-injury’ and body modification) in the context of gendered embodiment. The overarching ... -
I know what it is but how bad does it get? Insights into the lived experience and service needs of people with early-stage dementia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2009)In Ireland, age-related illnesses such as dementia are becoming a greater policy concern in line with population ageing. Despite this, dementia-specific policies and practices are still largely under-developed and the ... -
Moving across countries, labour markets and the life cycle : Polish and Central / Eastern European migration to Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis investigates East to West migration specifically looking at new patterns and forms of ‘middle-class’ migration and more general labour market outcomes within which the former may be positioned. The study is ... -
Co-producing development : participation, power and conflict in the upgrading of informal settlements in Nairobi
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)This thesis analyses how social and political conflicts among different social actors shape the implementation of slum-upgrading programmes. The research focuses on the first two years (2008-2010) of the implementation of ... -
The spiralling swallow : a sociological auto-ethnography of "eating disorders(s)" and "recovery"
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This thesis is a sociological auto-ethnography of "eating disorder(s)" and "recovery".Using creative methodologies, I have created an intersubjective, poly-vocal account of bodies in encounter with medicine. I position ... -
In the shadow of the clock : working time in the Irish software sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2004)This thesis is concerned with working time in the software sector in Ireland. It examines its nature and the way in which it is organised. Twenty-two people were interviewed over the course of a year about various aspects ... -
Knowing what it means to be Irish : cultural identity and the production of Irish advertising
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)While advertising has long fascinated researchers in the social sciences, the majority of studies undertaken in this field have focused on consumer receptivity and interpretation, while generally ignoring the production ... -
Ireland and race : ideas, intellectuals and identities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2007)This dissertation offers an exploration of the processes involved in the construction of discourses of Irishness and otherness as it relates to migration and anti racism in Ireland between 1990 and 2005. In doing so, I ...
