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Monday, Feb 6th 2012


Articles Covering Sociology

Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”

L’Humanite interview with Monique Pinçon-Charlot: “the rich have a money addiction that must be treated”
For sociologist Monique Pinçon-Charlot, the campaign against public deficits is an ideological weapon being used by neoliberals to do away with social rights all over the world.
Among the budgetary proposals to be discussed by the French government is a move [...]

Folk Devils, Folk Angels and the Erosion of Real Discourse in Ireland

The current economic crisis in Ireland has highlighted many of the problems in Irish society that perhaps we all knew were there to a greater or lesser degree. For me the one interesting aspect of the past three years has come in our media. It has been discussed elsewhere (see Gavan Titley’s piece in [...]

The Oppressed Have No Obligation to Follow the Rules of the Game…”

An Interview with Ashis Nandy.
Prof Ashis Nandy is a well known social thinker and social psychologist based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He has been an outspoken critic of science, modernity and secularism. His writings since the early 1980s have been extremely influential, in conjunction with Edward Said’s critique [...]

New Left Project | Erik Olin Wright Interview: Envisioning Real Utopias

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • June 17th 2010

New Left Project | Erik Olin Wright Interview
Interview on New Left Project with Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Erik Olin Wright about his new book Envisioning Real Utopias. He says that the anti-Capitalist left has been very good at critiquing what is wrong with capitalism but has not been able to [...]

Financial markets and social power - the new inequalities of turbo-capitalism

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY LECTURE SERIES 2010
Prof James Wickham
Head of School of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Financial markets and social power - the new inequalities of turbo-capitalism

Wednesday 10 February 2010
7.00- 9.30 pm
Synge lecture theatre, Arts Building, TCD

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Chris Eipper, Marilyn Silverman and Irish Class Relations

Since the 1990s, anthropologists working in Ireland have increasingly concerned themselves with ideas of class and class relations. Previously, the central themes were rural life, community, kinship and social structure. In 1932 Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball undertook a two-year study of small communities in Co. Clare. The resultant publications, An Irish Countryman [...]

Our Shadow In The Sunlight Seems To Us To Move

…and this brings me to the third point which goes to the root of the whole matter: that the relation to capital and labour, employer and employed, should not be one of hostility and suspicion and self-seeking, but one of sympathy and co-operation, each caring for the interests of the other as if they were [...]

Class and Ireland: Part 3 - Records of a Floating Life

An article by Conor McCabe of Dublin Opinion • September 30th 2008

Night is gone, a dawn
comes up in birds and sounds of the city.
There will be light
to live by, things
to see: my eyes will lift
to where the sun in vermilion sits,
and I will love thee and have pity. (Michael Hartnett)
I’m sitting on the small fenced stone wall that surrounds the central bank on Dame Street, [...]

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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