Sociology in Ireland: A Short History by Bryan Fanning;Andreas Hess

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From the outset the ERI achieved a high level of publication output. Within five years four ERI researchers had moved on to take up Chairs in Economics at Irish or British universities (Kennedy, 1993: 231). The institute’s junior staff were, for the most part, recruited from Irish universities. ). His emphasis, and that of the ERI, was on the development of econometrics. This would have consequences for sociology when in 1966 the ERI expanded its remit to become the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).

This was indeed remarkable and hints almost at some form of hibernation due to non-decision at a higher level. As one observer has pointed out, this was the very period when the expansion of education in Ireland became a social and political issue (Lee, 1989: 587). The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin effectively still controlled the appointments to five UCD Chairs in Ethics and Politics, Logic and Psychology, Education, Sociology and Metaphysics. The professors who held these Chairs were clergy. ) reflected nineteenth-century scholastic ideas as to how philosophical enquiry should be broken up.

The targeted audience of the journal consisted of young priests interested in social work that had participated in study circles on social problems at Maynooth and had become members of the Christus Rex Society established by McKevitt in 1941 (Daly, 1947: 27–33). The name of the journal was also its main programme: Christus Rex was primarily a journal of applied Catholic thought and was, for example, very different from the intellectually more adventurous and independent Jesuit journal Studies.

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