TY - BOOK AU - Clancy,Patrick ED - Institute of Public Administration (Ireland) ED - Sociological Association of Ireland. TI - Irish society: sociological perspectives SN - 9781872002873 (pbk) : U1 - 306.09415 CLA PY - 1995/// CY - Dublin PB - Institute of Public Administration in association with the Sociological Association of Ireland KW - Social structure KW - Ireland KW - Anthropology KW - thema KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - Economic conditions KW - 1949- KW - Society KW - Northern Ireland N1 - Includes bibliographies and index; Chapter 1.Sociology and Irish Society - Patrick Clancy, Sheelagh Drudy, Kathleen Lynch and Liam O\'Dowd. Part 1: Population, Work and Social Change. Chapter 2.Demographic Structure and Change in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - Damien Courtney -- Chapter 3.Global Restructuring and the Irish Political Economy - Denis O\'Hearn -- Chapter 4.Development or Dependency? State, Economy and Society in Northern Ireland - Liam O\'Dowd -- Chapter 5.The european Community and the Irish Rural Economy - Patrick Commins -- Chapter 6.Family and Household in Ireland - Tony Fahey -- Chapter 7.Women and Informal Economic Activity in Belfast - Madeleine Leonard -- Chapter 8.Caring Labour and Love Labour - Kathleen Lynch and Eithne McLaughlin. Part 2: Class, Politics and the State. Chapter 9.Class Society, Inequality and the \'Declassed\' - Sheelagh Drudy -- Chapter 10.Class Transformation and Social Mobility in the Republic of Ireland - Christopher Whelan -- Chapter 11.Interest Groups and the State - Michel Peillon -- Chapter 12.Community Action and the State - Chris Curtin and Tony Varley -- Chapter 13.Getting the Criminals we Want: a Model for the New Europe? - Mike Tomlinson. Part 3: Education, Culture and Social Movements. Chapter 15.Education in the Republic of Ireland: The Project of Modernity? - Patrick Clancy -- Chapter 16.Education in Northern Ireland: The Struggle for Equality - Robert Cormack and Robert Osborne -- Chapter 17.Gender and Education: North and South - Kathleen Lynch and Valerie Morgan -- Chapter 18.Broadcasting in Ireland: Issues of National Identity and Censorship - Mary Kelly and Bill Rolston -- Chapter 19.The Power of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland - Maþire Nic Ghiolla Phaþdraig -- Chapter 20.Cherishing the Children of the Nation Unequally: Secretarianism in Ireland -- Robbie McVeigh -- Chapter 21.The Social Shaping of the Environmental Movement in Ireland - Steven Yearley -- Chapter 22.From Democracy to Femocracy: The Women\'s Movement in the Republic of Ireland - Evelyn Mahon ER -