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This module addresses advanced topics in the study of how lives are structured through education, the labour market and social policy in the various branches of the welfare state. Topics may include: patterns and processes of social mobility; the mobilisation of resources of various kinds by people at different times and places in their lives; the structuring of outcomes and opportunities by public and private institutions; how gender, sexualities, class and ethnicity intersect with the institutions structuring lives; consequences for societal development and social inequalities; Irish, European and global perspectives.
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