Fuller, Wendy Irene (2006) Reflexive Identity Formation in University-Aged Irish: A Selective Sample from Catholic and Non-Catholic Groups. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
This study was undertaken with the intent to discover rich and in-depth
personal details involved in the process of reflexive identity formation
in a small, selected group of university-aged Irish young people. Under the
basic canopy of Tom Inglis’ (ISSC Working Paper 2004, hereafter “IWP
2004”) research concerning Irish Catholic identity formation, this study was
geared toward augmenting Inglis’ (IWP 2004) findings and fleshing out
some of the details concerning the generation to which many of Inglis’
respondents were referring when discussing the rehgio-philosophical habits
of their children.
Two groups of participants were chosen, totalling in 7 people as one
respondent changed his mind and decided not to participate. One group
were those individuals who identified themselves as “Catholic” and the
other was comprised of people of various faith forms but who had actively
disaffiliated from Catholicism. Respondents aged from 20-23 and all were
either attending or had completed undergraduate study. Each participant
was asked the same series of semi-structured, open-ended questions
pertaining to life history details and the nature of their relationship with
their spirituality or faith system and their identities. All respondents save
one originated from various Dublin or outlying Dublin suburbs, the one
exception originated from the West of Ireland
Overall, the data was gathered through in-depth, life history style
interviews and showed support for several of Inglis’ (IWP 2004) findings
concerning Catholic identity. The data gave great insight into various non-institutionalised
faith systems. The findings also support other theorists’
work in the area of religion and identity formation, including Verter’s
(2003) research on spiritual capital as well as that which was conducted
carried out by Kelley and De Graaf (1997) on the affects of parental
socialization on value systems
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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Keywords: | Reflexive Identity Formation; Catholic; Non-Catholic; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 5326 |
Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2014 14:37 |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/5326 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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