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Associations between non-parental adult support and youths’ individual and contextual characteristics
(Routledge, 2021-01-15)
While the role parents play in supporting young people is well
established, support from other caring adults also becomes
important during adolescence, particularly when young people
are facing problems in their lives. ...
Opposed by men and rejected by women: the dilemma of male gender equality activists in Malawi
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)
Gender Equality Activism (GEA) encapsulates actions and
strategies taken by people or groups to promote the equality of rights and
opportunities between men and women (Stake, 2007). Little is known
about men’s engagement ...
The possibilities of feminism(s) in an uncertain world
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)
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Naming my world: Finding my voice
(SAGE Publications, 2021-07-19)
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, ...
Exploring young women’s attitudes towards the feminist movement and popular music artists’ claims to feminism
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)
The last decade has seen a marked increase in public visibility
of feminism. Numerous factors have contributed to this; not least the
growing number of celebrities aligning themselves with the feminist
movement. This ...
Assessment and decision making under the spotlight: The roles of student, practice teacher, tutor and university in four failed social work placements
(Whiting and Birch, 2021-01-24)
In social work education failing placement is a seismic event. There are many complex reasons why placements fail; the student fails the placement, the placement fails the student, the practice teacher fails the student, ...
Liminal citizenship: Young people's perspectives on civic and political engagement in three European cities
(University of Chicago Press, 2021-06)
Concerns about young people s disengagement from civic and political life, particularly disengagement of those from marginalized backgrounds, are prominent in contemporary discourse and increasingly serve as an impetus ...
Initial motivation of mentors in formal youth mentoring relationships
(Routledge, 2021-06-22)
The paper presents results of a phenomenological longitudinal qualitative study undertaken with mentors associated with the Big Brothers Big Sisters programme in the Czech Republic. Ten mentors were interviewed during the ...
The Dev Girls: gender constructions and competing identities through self-representation on Instagram
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)
Advances in software development are increasingly shaping the world
around us with new software technologies giving global technology
corporations the power to predict our behaviour and influence our decisions.
The world ...
Indigenous Australian women: Towards a womanist perspective
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)
This article discusses the historical presentation of Indigenous
Australian women as depicted through the 1980 paradigms of EuroAustralian feminist and anthropologist Dianne Belle. While Belle’s
paradigms, Man Equals ...