How is the boundary maintained between the two communities in Northern Ireland?

Whyte, Jean

doi:10.1080/01419870.1986.9993524

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“…Society also remains fundamentally segregated between Catholics and Protestants. It is estimated that 35 to 40 percent of Northern Irish residents live in completely segregated communities (Whyte, 1986 ). Moreover, there is evidence of self-segregation when it comes to friendships: 55 percent of Protestants and 75 percent of Catholics report that "all or most" of their friends are of the same religion as them.…”

Section: Intergroup Trust In Northern Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Promoting intergroup trust among adolescents and young adults

Turner¹,

Hewstone²,

Swart³

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Interpersonal Trust During Childhood and Adolescence

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Section: Intergroup Trust In Northern Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is also segregation in the educational system, in which 94 percent of children attend a Catholic or a Protestant, rather than a mixed, school (NICIE, 2008 ). This segregation allows prejudice and stereotypes to flourish (Whyte, 1986 ) .…”

Section: Intergroup Trust In Northern Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting intergroup trust among adolescents and young adults

Turner¹,

Hewstone²,

Swart³

et al. 2010

Interpersonal Trust During Childhood and Adolescence

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“…Sociologists have looked at how boundaries are maintained in a variety of areas (e.g. Britton (1990), Whyte (1986)). Gaziano (1996) and Gieryn (1983) look at boundary maintenance in the context of professions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How ‘we’ are different from ‘them’: occupational boundary maintenance in the treatment of musculo‐skeletal problems

Norris

2001

Sociology Health & Illness

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Strategies of occupational control at the macro-level have been described by many sociologists. This paper draws on a study of the division of labour in the treatment of musculo-skeletal problems in New Zealand to look at micro-level strategies of occupational control. These are rhetorical strategies used by individual practitioners to establish and maintain occupational boundaries. Practitioners used these strategies to distinguish their occupation from others, creating a sense of professional identity and enabling claims to jurisdiction over an area of work. Many of these strategies involved notions of limitation (i.e. other occupations are limited because they do not possess something we do), holism (we are holistic in our approach while others are not), and prevention (we prevent problems by treating the causes, while others treat the symptoms).

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“…Empirical evidence from different areas provides support for many of the model predictions. For instance, residential segregation and separate education was found highly responsible for repeated conflict in Northern Ireland (Whyte 1986). In studies of voting behavior, the classical work of Tingsten (1963Tingsten ( [1937) has shown that socialist party choice is disproportionately more likely in working class districts.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main drawback of empirical studies is that they are purely descriptive and they do not test micro processes of social network effects and in particular, of segregation effects. On the other hand, empirical results show that segregation can be associated with higher likelihood of intergroup conflict (Blau and Schwartz 1984;Whyte 1986;Diez Medrano 1994;Olzak et al 1996).…”

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Modeling Intergroup Conflict As Strategic Interactions

Takács¹

2003

Review of Sociology

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Abstract:Conflicts between groups are among the central research problems in the social sciences. Several theoretical models have been proposed previously to understand and explain their causes, emergence, and dynamics. None of these models, however, captured the unintended nature of these conflicts as a result of individual actions and the structural embeddedness of actions at the same time. This study proposes such a framework as it integrates two-level models of intergroup relations known as team games and models of dyadic social control mechanisms. The proposed model demonstrates why and under what structural conditions can intergroup conflicts be considered as social dilemmas. Model predictions can be derived about the relation between certain properties of the social network and likelihood of intergroup conflict. In particular, the model provides an explanation why intergroup conflicts are often promoted by segregation and also describes some conditions under which the segregation effect becomes weaker.

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How is the boundary maintained between the two communities in Northern Ireland?

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Promoting intergroup trust among adolescents and young adults

Promoting intergroup trust among adolescents and young adults

How ‘we’ are different from ‘them’: occupational boundary maintenance in the treatment of musculo‐skeletal problems

Modeling Intergroup Conflict As Strategic Interactions

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