Tony Fahey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4173230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Fahey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Fahey |
| SIGNATURE | FAHEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Sibsize Revolution and Social Disparities in Children’s Family Contexts in the United States, 1940–2012
This article points to a sharp decline in children’s sibling numbers (sibsize) that occurred in the United States since the 1970s and was large enough among children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) (particularly black children) to amount to a revolution in their family circumstances. It interprets sibsize decline as a source of social convergence in children’s family contexts that ran counter to trends toward social divergence caused by the…
Lifetime Childlessness, Depressive Mood and Quality of Life Among Older Europeans
Progress or decline? Demographic change in political contex
This chapter provides a general overview of demographic and social change than to pick out those changes which have aroused the greatest interest in the political sphere and outline what they have entailed. It utilizes political prominence as a rough criterion by which to identify the topics to focus on, but there is no attempt to examine the political significance of those topics in any detail. The changes in demographic behaviour just outlined …
Family Policy in Ireland
From Asset Based Welfare to Welfare Housing? The Changing Function of Social Housing in Ireland
This paper examines a distinctive and significant aspect of social housing in Ireland—its change in function from an asset-based role in welfare support to a more standard model of welfare housing. It outlines the nationalist and agrarian drivers which expanded the initial role of social housing beyond the goal of improving housing conditions for the poor towards the goal of extending homeownership, and assesses whether this focus made it more si…
Immigration and Socio-spatial Segregation in Dublin, 1996-2006
Previous research on the impact of immigration on urban socio-spatial inequalities has focused on cities with long immigration histories where successive waves of new arrivals impacted on segregation patterns established by preceding waves, usually in a context where immigrants in each wave were poor and had low education. This paper focuses on Dublin as an example of a city where immigration is new and recent, is dominated by the well educated a…
Historical legacies and contemporary attitudes
Notes on Authors
Confidence in political institutions and political participation
The constitutional question
Conclusion
Religion
Left-right divide and ‘new issue’ politics
Data sources
Preliminary Material
European Values Study 1999–2000
Identity
Index
Work, subjective well-being and social capital
The liberal-conservative divide
Conflict and Consensus
This study presents a detailed comparison of cultural values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is based on survey data covering the period from the 1970s to 2003 but focusing especially on the European Values Study (EVS) as fielded in the two parts of Ireland in 1999-2000. The study confirms the deep divisions in identity and political allegiance that separate the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ire…
Do subjective indicators measure welfare
Indicators of subjective well-being have gained only limited acceptance as tools for the social-scientific analysis of human welfare, mainly because they seem insensitive to variations in the socio-economic context. However, this apparent insensitivity has been established by research which has been limited in various ways. Using data on life satisfaction for 33 European societies which goes some way to transcending these limits, this paper ident…
Housing Expenditures and Income Poverty in EU Countries
Previous research has suggested that hidden income arising from home ownership has important consequences for poverty measurement as it tends to favour certain low income groups, especially the elderly, and to have a moderating effect on poverty rates in countries with high levels of home ownership. This article explores both methodological and substantive aspects of this issue using data for 14 EU countries drawn from the European Community Hous…
Is there a Trade-Off between Pensions and Home Ownership
It has been argued that, in countries with high levels of owner occupation of housing, home ownership can serve as a substitute for generous pensions for older people. Two possible linking mechanisms have been posited in this context, one focusing on budget constraints (high housing costs associated with home purchase makes the funding of generous pensions unaffordable), the other on needs or incentives (high home ownership gives older people mat…
Privacy and the Family
This paper offers a critical assessment of the distinction between the public and the private spheres as often used in family studies. In place of the focus on a single public/private dichotomy which is common in sociological usage, it points to the multiple, cross-cutting, context-specific zones of privacy found in social life. It provides an empirical illustration of the nature and effects of such zones of privacy by examining some instances of…
Do subjective indicators measure welfare
Indicators of subjective well-being have gained only limited acceptance as tools for the social-scientific analysis of human welfare, mainly because they seem insensitive to variations in the socio-economic context. However, this apparent insensitivity has been established by research which has been limited in various ways. Using data on life satisfaction for 33 European societies which goes some way to transcending these limits, this paper ident…
Lifetime Childlessness, Depressive Mood and Quality of Life Among Older Europeans
Conflict and Consensus
This study presents a detailed comparison of cultural values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is based on survey data covering the period from the 1970s to 2003 but focusing especially on the European Values Study (EVS) as fielded in the two parts of Ireland in 1999-2000. The study confirms the deep divisions in identity and political allegiance that separate the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ire…
Privacy and the Family
This paper offers a critical assessment of the distinction between the public and the private spheres as often used in family studies. In place of the focus on a single public/private dichotomy which is common in sociological usage, it points to the multiple, cross-cutting, context-specific zones of privacy found in social life. It provides an empirical illustration of the nature and effects of such zones of privacy by examining some instances of…
Housing Expenditures and Income Poverty in EU Countries
Previous research has suggested that hidden income arising from home ownership has important consequences for poverty measurement as it tends to favour certain low income groups, especially the elderly, and to have a moderating effect on poverty rates in countries with high levels of home ownership. This article explores both methodological and substantive aspects of this issue using data for 14 EU countries drawn from the European Community Hous…
Is there a Trade-Off between Pensions and Home Ownership
It has been argued that, in countries with high levels of owner occupation of housing, home ownership can serve as a substitute for generous pensions for older people. Two possible linking mechanisms have been posited in this context, one focusing on budget constraints (high housing costs associated with home purchase makes the funding of generous pensions unaffordable), the other on needs or incentives (high home ownership gives older people mat…
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
The paper examines Max Weber's Ancient Judaism, one of the least studied of Weber's works, and relates Ancietn Judaism to Weber's other writings, to its background in contemporary German scholarship, and to the question of the nature of Weber's historical sociology. Special emphasis is given to (1) Weber's analysis of the early Israelite tribal confederacy, (2) the role of the priesthood in ethical rationalization, and (3) the contribution of sec…
From Asset Based Welfare to Welfare Housing? The Changing Function of Social Housing in Ireland
This paper examines a distinctive and significant aspect of social housing in Ireland—its change in function from an asset-based role in welfare support to a more standard model of welfare housing. It outlines the nationalist and agrarian drivers which expanded the initial role of social housing beyond the goal of improving housing conditions for the poor towards the goal of extending homeownership, and assesses whether this focus made it more si…
The Sibsize Revolution and Social Disparities in Children’s Family Contexts in the United States, 1940–2012
This article points to a sharp decline in children’s sibling numbers (sibsize) that occurred in the United States since the 1970s and was large enough among children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) (particularly black children) to amount to a revolution in their family circumstances. It interprets sibsize decline as a source of social convergence in children’s family contexts that ran counter to trends toward social divergence caused by the…
Immigration and Socio-spatial Segregation in Dublin, 1996-2006
Previous research on the impact of immigration on urban socio-spatial inequalities has focused on cities with long immigration histories where successive waves of new arrivals impacted on segregation patterns established by preceding waves, usually in a context where immigrants in each wave were poor and had low education. This paper focuses on Dublin as an example of a city where immigration is new and recent, is dominated by the well educated a…
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
The paper examines Max Weber's Ancient Judaism, one of the least studied of Weber's works, and relates Ancietn Judaism to Weber's other writings, to its background in contemporary German scholarship, and to the question of the nature of Weber's historical sociology. Special emphasis is given to (1) Weber's analysis of the early Israelite tribal confederacy, (2) the role of the priesthood in ethical rationalization, and (3) the contribution of sec…
Text and Context in Interpreting a Text
Housework, the Household Economy and Economic Development in Ireland since the 1920s
This paper proposes a concept of the household economy which incorporates housework as a productive activity, and on the basis of that concept re-examines the thesis that the household economy declines during economic development. It looks in particular at Irish evidence for the period 1926–86, as well as at secondary evidence for international trends. The analysis suggests that, although certain segments of the household economy have declined, t…
Privacy and the Family
This paper offers a critical assessment of the distinction between the public and the private spheres as often used in family studies. In place of the focus on a single public/private dichotomy which is common in sociological usage, it points to the multiple, cross-cutting, context-specific zones of privacy found in social life. It provides an empirical illustration of the nature and effects of such zones of privacy by examining some instances of…
Is there a Trade-Off between Pensions and Home Ownership
It has been argued that, in countries with high levels of owner occupation of housing, home ownership can serve as a substitute for generous pensions for older people. Two possible linking mechanisms have been posited in this context, one focusing on budget constraints (high housing costs associated with home purchase makes the funding of generous pensions unaffordable), the other on needs or incentives (high home ownership gives older people mat…
Do subjective indicators measure welfare
Indicators of subjective well-being have gained only limited acceptance as tools for the social-scientific analysis of human welfare, mainly because they seem insensitive to variations in the socio-economic context. However, this apparent insensitivity has been established by research which has been limited in various ways. Using data on life satisfaction for 33 European societies which goes some way to transcending these limits, this paper ident…
Housing Expenditures and Income Poverty in EU Countries
Previous research has suggested that hidden income arising from home ownership has important consequences for poverty measurement as it tends to favour certain low income groups, especially the elderly, and to have a moderating effect on poverty rates in countries with high levels of home ownership. This article explores both methodological and substantive aspects of this issue using data for 14 EU countries drawn from the European Community Hous…
Historical legacies and contemporary attitudes
Notes on Authors
Confidence in political institutions and political participation
The constitutional question
Conclusion
Religion
Left-right divide and ‘new issue’ politics
Data sources
Preliminary Material
European Values Study 1999–2000
Identity
Index
Work, subjective well-being and social capital
The liberal-conservative divide
Conflict and Consensus
This study presents a detailed comparison of cultural values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is based on survey data covering the period from the 1970s to 2003 but focusing especially on the European Values Study (EVS) as fielded in the two parts of Ireland in 1999-2000. The study confirms the deep divisions in identity and political allegiance that separate the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ire…
Immigration and Socio-spatial Segregation in Dublin, 1996-2006
Previous research on the impact of immigration on urban socio-spatial inequalities has focused on cities with long immigration histories where successive waves of new arrivals impacted on segregation patterns established by preceding waves, usually in a context where immigrants in each wave were poor and had low education. This paper focuses on Dublin as an example of a city where immigration is new and recent, is dominated by the well educated a…
From Asset Based Welfare to Welfare Housing? The Changing Function of Social Housing in Ireland
This paper examines a distinctive and significant aspect of social housing in Ireland—its change in function from an asset-based role in welfare support to a more standard model of welfare housing. It outlines the nationalist and agrarian drivers which expanded the initial role of social housing beyond the goal of improving housing conditions for the poor towards the goal of extending homeownership, and assesses whether this focus made it more si…
Progress or decline? Demographic change in political contex
This chapter provides a general overview of demographic and social change than to pick out those changes which have aroused the greatest interest in the political sphere and outline what they have entailed. It utilizes political prominence as a rough criterion by which to identify the topics to focus on, but there is no attempt to examine the political significance of those topics in any detail. The changes in demographic behaviour just outlined …
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