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Church, State and Social Science in Ireland : knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937-73 / Peter Murray and Maria Feeney.

By: Murray, Peter, 1952- [author].
Contributor(s): Feeney, Maria [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2017Description: x, 259 pages : 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526121721 (paperback); 9781526100788 (hardback).Subject(s): Church and state -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 306.682415
Contents:
Introduction -- Sociology and the catholic social movement in an independent Irish state -- Facing facts: the empirical turn of Irish catholic sociology in the 1950s -- US aid and the creation of an Irish scientific research infrastructure -- The institutionalisation of Irish social research -- Social research and state planning -- Conclusion.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the twentieth century is the subject of this book. Drawing on newly available material, it looks at how social science, which had been a church monopoly, was taken over and bent to new purposes by politicians and civil servants. This case study casts new light on wider processes of change, and the story features a strong and somewhat surprising cast of characters ranging from Sean Lemass and T.K. Whitaker to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Father Denis Fahey.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.

Introduction -- Sociology and the catholic social movement in an independent Irish state -- Facing facts: the empirical turn of Irish catholic sociology in the 1950s -- US aid and the creation of an Irish scientific research infrastructure -- The institutionalisation of Irish social research -- Social research and state planning -- Conclusion.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of tables (p. viii)
  • List of abbreviations (p. ix)
  • 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • 2 Sociology and the Catholic: social movement in an independent Irish state (p. 32)
  • 3 Facing facts: the empirical turn of Irish Catholic sociology in the 1950s (p. 68)
  • 4 US aid and the creation of an Irish scientific research infrastructure (p. 105)
  • 5 The institutionalisation of Irish social research (p. 139)
  • 6 Social research and state planning (p. 173)
  • 7 Conclusion (p. 209)
  • References (p. 241)
  • Index (p. 255)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Murray is Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland

Maria Feeney has lectured in Sociology and Education at Maynooth University, Ireland