Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland - Webs of Significance

"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"--

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical 3. Place, Family and Identity 4. Money and Success 5. Politics 6. Sport 7. Religions 8. Love 9. Conclusion

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: T Inglis, T. Inglis, Tom Inglis
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137429124
• ISBN: 978-1-137-42912-4
• No. of pages: 267
• Series: Cultural Sociology; Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Population, B, Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Equality, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social groups and identities, Urban Sociology, Social Structure, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Demography, Sports—Sociological aspects, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Population and Demography, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Religion and sociology, Social groups: religious groups and communities, identity;politics;religion;Sport