Pub Date : 2021-09-06DOI: 10.1177/07916035211034055
Kieran Keohane
In our melancholy time, rather than grieving for the death of Society, or picking through its bones and squabbling about scraps of its carcass, we should, in a dialectical spirit celebrate the hope of a resurrection of the body politic, and the assimilating, unifying and vivifying spirit of Society, and thereby strive to realize the promise of Sociology. The promise of Irish Sociology - of the profession of Sociology on this island, of Sociology I per se i - is to keep on raising the question posed by Adorno and Butler: "How can we live a right life in wrong times?" Society hasn't gone away;Society has been here all along, alive, though in urgent need of care and attention;and attending to the body politic and the spirit of Society as an integral whole is the hopeful mission of Irish Sociology. Between melancholy and hope: A mission for Irish Sociology. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Irish Journal of Sociology is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/07916035211041110
I. Etxabe
Most studies on social capital integrate proxy variables such as cooperation, participation or trust, but very few examine in depth underlying patterns of behaviour and resulting social phenomena. Filling a gap in earlier studies, this paper conducts a long-range study of the stock of social capital in the Basque Country in Spain, with the aim of analysing the values that are at the core of civic engagement in the territory. Secondary data collected from official statistics websites and relevant studies in the field are used to examine the structural and cognitive dimensions. This information confirms the paradox: at the national scale, the Basque Country is a leading community, but region-specific research unveils a less favourable scenario of endogamic relations, institutional distrust, and low participation. Therefore, although numerous public organisations play a remarkable guiding role, further steps are needed to improve the connectivity of the different actors within the Regional Innovation System.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-30DOI: 10.1177/07916035211038250
Annette Byrne
To read Ricca’s words is an exhilarating experience. She brought extraordinary awareness, insight and depth to how sociologists may use language to acquire and communicate knowledge of the social world. The art and craft of writing, she argued, is a form of mediation whose aim is to expand capacities and competencies in thinking, reasoning and acting about and in society. This was her ambition, fully realised in a life committed to creating a responsible and empathic understanding of the social. In writing, Ricca joins herself as an author who, with research collaborators and unknown readers in mind, strive to shape and convey meaning so that our understanding is altered. Aware of the complexities of conveying experiences of any particular social situation to others, Ricca calls for a new ‘interworld’ language in sociology, in which the sociologist must be prepared to change readers’ hearts and minds, feelings and beliefs, while abiding by the complex standards of truth claims of disciplines. This new language would.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-04DOI: 10.1177/07916035211034355
R. Bolton, Claire Edwards, Máire Leane, Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin, C. Fennell
This paper explores how young people (aged 18–24 years) in Ireland attribute young men's sexual harassment and violence against women both to the situational demands of what we call ‘heteromasculine homosociality’ and young men's negotiation of role taking with women. Interpreting young people's explanations for sexual violence, the paper argues that through different forms of sexual harassment and violence, women are (ab)used to cement the heterosexual bonds between men. The argument is explored by drawing on young people's explanations of three forms of sexual harassment and violence: verbal violence, unwanted sexual touching and assault and image-based sexual abuse. The data comes from 28 interviews with young people as part of a European-funded research study that aims to explore both the discourses that young people use in their understandings of gender and violence against women and how young men may be supported in combatting violence against women. Among other implications, we suggest that as well as deconstructing attitudes towards women, prevention work and interventions with men must also focus on men's beliefs about the normative basis for masculine status and belonging between men.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-19DOI: 10.1177/07916035211034356
J. Kirwan
In a previous paper, ‘The Playing a Blinder Myth and why we must not forget shortcomings in unprecedented times’, it was argued that acting Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar's response to the pandemic was one of opportunism rather than one of competency. By adopting a similar method to the previous article, this piece will provide an updated discussion and commentary, based on newspaper articles covering the newly formed Irish (Republic of Ireland) government's response to the pandemic to date. This paper discusses the governance of the coalition of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and The Green Party to examine whether the context of the pandemic deflected the Irish public's attention from what was simply a continuation of the Government's normal approach to welfare, housing and healthcare. Therefore, this paper will focus on the coalition's decision to screen and tax recipients of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, the enactment of housing strategies that have not met the existing issues within the housing market and how previous measures have not provided adequate protection for the healthcare system during the pandemic. In this short article, the Republic of Ireland's government response to the pandemic is revisited after a year of living with coronavirus within the context of welfare, housing and healthcare.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-19DOI: 10.1177/07916035211030374
A. Byrne
This is a personal account of a sociological career over four decades, influenced by developments in Irish society and sociology. I focus on the growth of a feminist sociology, the stigmatisation of unmarried mothers, concealed stories and the changing treatment of ‘voice’ in sociological research.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-05DOI: 10.1177/07916035211029871
Michael D. Higgins
I am delighted to be here with you all this afternoon to launch the Centre for the Study of the Moral Foundations of Economy and Society, a joint academic and intellectual venture between University College Cork (UCC) and Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). Today’s launch represents in its own way the culmination of a long process that began at a roundtable discussion in Áras an Uachtaráin in November 2013, when the idea of creating a structured academic programme dedicated to studying the moral underpinnings of economic and social life was first mentioned. That suggestion was one of the substantive contributions to the second consultation with the public on some of the major themes I had identified in my Inaugural Address in November 2011. The first consultation has been on ‘Being Young and Irish’, and the second consultation was on the theme of the nature and significance of ethics in our lives in contemporary Ireland. The meeting at Áras an Uachtaráin at which this idea of a Centre for the Study of Moral Foundations was first raised was one to which I had invited the representatives of all of Ireland’s third-level institutions, as well as the Royal Irish Academy, to make their contribution to a national discussion on the values and principles by which we might live together ethically as a society. That meeting was at the very earliest stages of the President of Ireland’s Ethics Initiative – and it is thus especially fitting that one of the final public events of that Initiative will be the launch today of this Centre, a Centre which I regard as a key legacy outcome of the Initiative.
我很高兴今天下午能和大家一起启动经济与社会道德基础研究中心，这是科克大学学院（UCC）和沃特福德理工学院（WIT）的一项学术和智力合资项目。今天的启动以其自身的方式代表了一个漫长过程的高潮，该过程始于2013年11月在Áras an Uachtaráin举行的一次圆桌讨论，当时首次提到了创建一个专门研究经济和社会生活道德基础的结构化学术课程的想法。这一建议是对我在2011年11月的就职演说中确定的一些主要主题与公众进行第二次协商的实质性贡献之一。第一次咨询是关于“成为年轻的爱尔兰人”，第二次咨询的主题是道德在当代爱尔兰生活中的性质和意义。在Áras an Uachtaráin举行的会议上，道德基础研究中心的想法首次被提出，我邀请了爱尔兰所有三级机构以及爱尔兰皇家学院的代表参加会议，为关于我们作为一个社会在道德上共同生活的价值观和原则的全国性讨论做出贡献。那次会议是爱尔兰总统道德倡议的最早阶段，因此，该倡议的最后一次公开活动之一将是今天启动该中心，我认为该中心是该倡议的一个重要遗产成果，这一点尤为合适。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-05DOI: 10.1177/07916035211029842
M. Corcoran
2021 has been a year for looking back as well as forwards. In this article, I reflect on the state of languishing induced by lockdown, and the intensification of uncertainty in our everyday lives. I offer some biographical details of the early years of my career, which has largely been within a single institution, Maynooth University. The late Professor Liam Ryan was my boss and later my friend from 1990 until his death in 2015. His (typically) acerbic insights on the state of Irish sociology were recorded in 1984 for an issue of the Sociological Association of Ireland Bulletin. Re-visiting his prognosis today, I reflect on North–South relations in the discipline, on the challenge of forging a public role for Irish sociology, and on the growth of a precariat within the academic discipline. I conclude with some comments on the enduring relevance of sociology as we come to terms with post-pandemic life.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-29DOI: 10.1177/07916035211029202
J. O’Brien
Pubs have served as a collective representation through which the collective identity of ‘Irish society’ has been articulated during the crisis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As such they offer a case study of how meaning making occurs in contemporary periods of social crisis. While the neoliberal era is widely interpreted as period involving a process of desymbolisation in which meaning giving traditions are undermined, in this period of social crisis long-established and authoritative narratives drawn from collective memory circulated to articulate the meaning of the pandemic for the collective identity in the sense of its nature, character, boundaries, ‘others’, and moral duties and sacrifices that membership implied. Highly stereotyped images of the sacred moral core of the collective as represented by publicans who embodied qualities of age and maturity, rural, cultural-nationalist identity and a post Land War ideal of community-oriented owner-proprieters appeared. Similarly conventional representations of the immoral enemies within, who threaten to morally and literally infect the community, can be seen in representations of venues and drinkers who embody youth, the urban crowd and mixing. The ‘other’ through which identity is articulated against was represented through Britishness, which was shown as the source of the undesirable aspects of modernity.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.1177/07916035211027080
R. Lenṭin
The role of the intellectual is not to consolidate authority, but to understand, interpret, and question it ... Indeed, the intellectual vocation essentially is somehow to alleviate human suffering and not to celebrate what in effect does not need celebrating, whether that’s the state or the patria or any of these basically triumphalist agents in our society (Edward Said, “On Defiance and Taking Positions”, 2000: 502–503).
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