Historical and Comparative Sociology Cluster

Members: Brian Conway, Laurence Cox, Jane Gray, John O’Brennan, Seán Ó Riain, Eamonn Slater

Co-ordinators: Jane Gray and Brian Conway

Aims of the Cluster:

This research cluster is concerned with how social change unfolds across different countries and geographical spaces. Its members are brought together by a common interest in understanding social change through the comparative historical study of such things as rural economic organisation, religious belief systems, modern households and families, political economy, social movements, and European enlargement processes, as well as discussing the methodological satisfactions and challenges of doing comparative/historical research.