Introduction (Vol.2, Iss.2)

Twelve months ago we launched the inaugural edition of Socheolas - The Limerick Student Journal of Sociology. The second edition followed within six months and we are delighted now to present the third edition of Socheolas, featuring six new articles by undergraduate students of Sociology at the University of Limerick. This edition again offers wide ranging critical discussion of key questions by student contributors. Topics addressed include the ongoing relevance of Marxist theory; critical evaluations of the welfare state; institutional racism in Irish society; critical analysis of digital technologies and two unique approaches to Irish identities, which are explored though discussion of hybridity, diaspora and symbolic ritua