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Author Murray, Peter, 1952- author.

Title Church, state and social science in Ireland : knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power 1937-73 / Peter Murray and Maria Feeney.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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 European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the 20th 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.
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Subject Church and state -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
Church and state.
Ireland.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Feeney, Maria, author.
Other Form: Print version: 9781526100788
ISBN 9781526108067 (electronic book)
1526108062 (electronic book)
9781526120823
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9781526100788
1526100789