O'Connor, Pat(Sociological Association of Ireland, 2001)
This article deals with one sociologist's experience of gender inequality in the academy and examines different forms of resistance to it. Here, the author uses the concept of resistance to explore some of the ways faculty ...
This article starts from the position that gender is crucial in understanding Irish society. Using Connell’s concept of the patriarchal dividend, and drawing on a variety of relevant literature, it explores its existence ...
This article describes a community support programme which implicitly challenges the assumption that the existence of a partner and local kin obviates the need to support women when they come home from hospital with a new ...
O'Connor, Pat(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006)
Drawing on texts written by young people aged 14-17 years in a school context in response to an invitation to write a page describing themselves and their vision of Ireland and to use the reverse side creatively for drawings, ...
Over the past ten years sociologists have increasingly recognised the usefulness of highlighting the organisational practises or ‘tactics’ (1) through which horizontal and vertical segregation is perpetuated. Although an ...
This paper is concerned with exploring issues related to local embeddedness. It is based on material provided by a national sample of young people aged 10-12 years and 14-17 years who were invited to write a single page ...
Much of the Irish semi-state sector is still characterized by permanent employment within male-dominated hierarchical structures. This case study focuses on a rural semi-state organization with a statutory obligation as ...