Shiels, Teresa(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-12)
Traumatic Brain Injury is the result of a sudden trauma to the head that leaves the person
sustaining it either dead or with a permanent disability and impairment. Where there is relatively little social contact between ...
Russell, Kevin(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-12)
Middle-class disgust is an important source of distinction which serves to maintain classed boundaries and privileges even where material conditions may be converging. This article presents a detailed analysis of ...
Moloney, Gillian(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-12)
This article unfolds constructions of citizenship by directly examining young people's views and experiences in order to confirm or reject the "Youth Apathy Thesis". Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted and seven ...
O'Doherty, Diane(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-12)
This article aims to uncover the hidden and lived experiences of graffiti artists in contemporary Irish society. It strives to give a face to those artists who are often depicted as masked or hooded villains. Semi- ...
Shinners-Kennedy, Caoilinn(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-12)
This paper aims to investigate the social experiences of students with disabilities at an Trish third level institution, to establish the extent to which these students are socially included. The paper examines the social ...
Marron, Aileen(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-12)
Adopting a Frame Analysis approach, this research examines the representation of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) and its employees in the Irish flagship daily newspaper, the Irish Independent. It finds that ...
Smith, Shamra(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
Nineteenth-century France was a time of increasing freedom for women, though men sought to discourage this autonomy through criticism in the form of art. Caricatures depicted women abandoning their household duties and ...
Flynn, Meghanne(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
While Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga has many problematic elements, it is not an anti-feminist text. Instead of being poisonous to young female readers, as many feminist critics suggest, the series is a space of nuanced ...
McMahon, John(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
This paper critically analyses how Freud’s psychoanalytic theories of the male and female oedipal complexes and their consequences, the castration complex and penis envy, relate
to women’s psychological development through ...
Gray, Breda(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
Feminism and gender studies are re-emerging as significant if fragmented forces in contemporary academic scholarship and bottom-up activism. Following the crises of definition and politics that marked the 1990s and early ...
Aguirre-Sulem, Evelyn(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
For many years it was assumed that the characteristics of indigenous people - e.g. permanence and immobility (Weber 2008, Cadena and Starn 2007, Yescas Angeles 2008) - made them irrelevant to the study of migration. ...
Bernacchi, Erika(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
In this article I explore how feminist postcolonial theories can help us to illuminate both the challenges and possibilities of instigating and maintaining a project founded on the notion of international feminist solidarity. ...
Hoysted, Elaine(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
This paper will examine the posthumous representation of Battista Sforza, countess of the court of Urbino during the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Battista died of pneumonia as a result of complications after ...
Neary, Aoife(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
The legal mechanism by which same-sex relationships are recognised has long been a contentious issue around the world. In many countries, same-sex marriage and civil
partnership (CP) have been met with stark opposition ...
Connolly, Aoife(Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012-04)
The Algerian War (1954-1962) was arguably the most traumatic war of decolonisation fought by Western colonial powers. As the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence approaches, this “War Without a Name” remains a problematic ...