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My first job as an ethnographer is to make a personal decision about my ethnography, whose starting point is where I will carry it out. I start off this assignment clueless as to what field I will choose and set off to Dublin as it has the highest concentration of possible choices. However after a few uneventful hours walking around some of Dublin's public institutions my notebook remains unfurnished by notes of any kind. The …

…Such information I am sure could be attained easily through contacting any government official or through some very basic research into government policy and could herald some very interesting results as in this way we could predict what Irish society might look like in another twenty or thirty years. If the answers to these questions are ascertainable they would be of considerable interest to social anthropologists, especially if they are studying processes of social change.