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Meeting the numbers: Performance politics and welfare-to-work at the street-level 满足数字：街头工作的绩效政治和福利

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-12-21 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211068430

M. McGann

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The ongoing project of Irish sociology 正在进行的爱尔兰社会学项目

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211038919

Seán Ó Riain

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Kieran Allen, 32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland 基兰·艾伦，《32个郡：分治的失败与统一爱尔兰的理由》

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211062529

A. O’Sullivan

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Reflections on sociology of Irish diaspora 关于爱尔兰侨民社会学的思考

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211054347

Mary J. Hickman

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Preface for 30th Anniversary Edition of Irish Journal of Sociology 《爱尔兰社会学杂志》30周年纪念版序言

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-11-11 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211050497

Michael D. Higgins

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Life after debt: The governmentalities of debt relief 债务后的生活:政府的债务减免

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211053257

Z. Roche

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Constructing sociology: The IJS and academic institution building 建构社会学:IJS与学术机构建设

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211054770

J. O’Brien

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Editorial 编辑

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211050603

L. Smyth, J. Nagle

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Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision and Establish a New International Support Service (2021) and the ‘sticky’ discourse of control 爱尔兰的白皮书结束直接提供和建立一个新的国际支持服务(2021年)和控制的“粘性”话语

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211046143

L. Coakley

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Corrigendum to “Bean feasa agus cara dilís: An tOllamh Eolaíocht Pholaitiúil agus Socheolaíocht, Ricca Edmondson” 更正“老妇人和最好的朋友：里卡·埃德蒙德森政治科学与社会学院”

Irish Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-24 DOI: 10.1177/07916035211051243

Socheolaíocht, Ricca Edmondson, Markus H. Woerner

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