Name: Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland
ISBN: 978-1-137-41372-7

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Tom Inglis

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xviii

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Webs of Significance
- Tom Inglis
Pages 1-16
Culture as Meaning
- Tom Inglis
Pages 17-39
Place, Family, and Identity
- Tom Inglis
Pages 41-63
Money and Success
- Tom Inglis
Pages 65-85
Politics
- Tom Inglis
Pages 87-105
Sport
- Tom Inglis
Pages 107-121
Religion
- Tom Inglis
Pages 123-153
Love
- Tom Inglis
Pages 155-179
Conclusion
- Tom Inglis
Pages 181-192
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Pages 193-250

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The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed one-hundred people in their native home of Ireland to discover what was most important and meaningful for them in their lives. Inglis believes language is a medium: there is never an exact correspondence between what is said and what is felt and understood. Using a variety of theoretical lenses developed within sociology and anthropology, Inglis places their lives within the context of Ireland's social and cultural transformations, and of longer-term processes of change such as increased globalisation, individualisation, and informalisation.

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Tom Inglis is Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. His books include Moral Monopoly: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Modern Ireland (1998), Lessons in Irish Sexuality (1998), Religion and Politics (2000), Truth, Power and Lies (2003), Global Ireland: Same Difference (2008), Making Love: A Memoir (2012), Love (2013) and Are the Irish Different? (2014).

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Book Title: Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland
Book Subtitle: Webs of Significance
Authors: Tom Inglis
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137413727
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42912-4Published: 06 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49171-1Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-41372-7Published: 06 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 250
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Demography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Religion

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