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Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland

Webs of Significance

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  • © 2014

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  1. Tom Inglis
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Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Webs of Significance

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 1-16

  3. Culture as Meaning

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 17-39

  4. Place, Family, and Identity

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 41-63

  5. Money and Success

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 65-85

  6. Politics

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 87-105

  7. Sport

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 107-121

  8. Religion

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 123-153

  9. Love

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 155-179

  10. Conclusion

    • Tom Inglis
    Pages 181-192

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 193-250
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About this book

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.

About the author

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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