Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland
Webs of Significance
Authors: Inglis, T.
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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.
- About the authors
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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).
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland
- Book Subtitle
- Webs of Significance
- Authors
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- T. Inglis
- Series Title
- Cultural Sociology
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Tom Inglis
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-41372-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137413727
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-42912-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-49171-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 250
- Topics
