The health experience of Irish people in a North West London 'community saved'

TY - JOUR

T1 - The health experience of Irish people in a North West London 'community saved'

AU - Malone, M

PY - 2001

Y1 - 2001

N2 - Describes the development of a 'community saved' among first generation Irish immigrants in London. A 'community saved' is defined by its containment of numerous personal relationships formed over time; it is 'densely knit' and 'bounded'. Within this paper links are described between the development and survival of this Irish immigrant community, with its emphasis on both family ties and work as a means of enhancing social cohesion, and its members' lived health experience. Social theory in its most comprehensive form, as a 'tool' of social research that seeks to provide explanations of events in the real world, provides a unifying theoretical framework for the study. The development of 'social capital', or the growth of values such as trust and reciprocity that facilitate societal functioning and community life, provides the main unifying theme linking community life to health experience. Precisely how it does so may mean moving, at times, in and out of empirical data. It involves participants (first generation Irish immigrants) using their own words and their own phrases to describe their particular experience: an exposition beyond the scope of mere statistical measurement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved)

AB - Describes the development of a 'community saved' among first generation Irish immigrants in London. A 'community saved' is defined by its containment of numerous personal relationships formed over time; it is 'densely knit' and 'bounded'. Within this paper links are described between the development and survival of this Irish immigrant community, with its emphasis on both family ties and work as a means of enhancing social cohesion, and its members' lived health experience. Social theory in its most comprehensive form, as a 'tool' of social research that seeks to provide explanations of events in the real world, provides a unifying theoretical framework for the study. The development of 'social capital', or the growth of values such as trust and reciprocity that facilitate societal functioning and community life, provides the main unifying theme linking community life to health experience. Precisely how it does so may mean moving, at times, in and out of empirical data. It involves participants (first generation Irish immigrants) using their own words and their own phrases to describe their particular experience: an exposition beyond the scope of mere statistical measurement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved)

M3 - Article

VL - 4

SP - 195

JO - Community, Work & Family

JF - Community, Work & Family

IS - 2

ER -