The past five years have seen the beginning of long awaited and long overdue legislative reform in the child care area with the introduction of the Status of Children Act, 1987; the Adoption Act, 1988; the Judicial ...

Drawing primarily on data from the 1911 Irish Census, and adopting a specifically Weberian focus, this paper investigates the separate explanatory power of class and status in the stratification of outcomes. Specifically ...

Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ...

Immigration is a key feature in late capitalist societies, with some 20,000,000 displaced persons worldwide. This paper reports on coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in English-language newspapers worldwide, drawing ...

This article critically appraises the success of the Back To Education Allowance (BTEA) in removing barriers to participation in 3rd level education for welfare recipients in Ireland. The paper is based on empirical data ...

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 ...

Despite over 60years of research on leadership, few attempts have been made to ensure that the models of leadership are inclusive of women or other outsiders'. This paper explores variation in the constructions of leadership ...

Introduction The gendered nature of Irish Society, North and South, is very much a taken for granted reality. Connell (1987) has argued that although we think of gender as a property of individuals, it is necessary to go ...

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Regional development literature and policy has, in recent years, increasingly focused upon mechanisms for engendering inter-firm collaboration at a local level. Co-operation and partnership are regarded as key to encouraging ...