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Church, state and social science in Ireland : Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937-73 /

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last 50 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 Europe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Murray, Peter, 1952- (Autor), Feeney, Maria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.