Cover-page and contents: Volume1| Issue 1
Introduction, Eoin Devereux
Changing Irish norms: The smoking ban, James Carr
Does file sharing really offend our collective conscience? Exploring the relationship between societal versus corporate interests in the criminalisation of file sharing, Ann Cronin
Eating, food and the female body in the media and medicine: A feminist analysis of eating disorders, Eleanor Carey
The sociology of chronic illness: An experiential account of the benefits of a sociological perspective to students of medicine, Claire Kehoe
An Irish audience negotiates lesbian visibility in The L Word: “But it’s not a perfect world and not everyone looks like that”, Deirdre Moore
The rising tide that failed to lift all boats: poverty, inequality and the “Celtic Tiger”, Louise Johnston
Social exclusion and the plight of asylum seekers living in Ireland Ruth McDonnell
The Irish welfare state: Closer to Boston than Berlin?, Mathilde Schäfer