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Faculties & Departments
Department of Sociolology
Publications: Dr. Deirdre Kirke
Book
Kirke, D. M. 2006a Teenagers and substance use: social networks and peer influence, pp. 1-202, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York.
Chapters in Books
Kirke, D. M. 2008 “Social network analysis” in Gray, M. and Webb, S.A. eds., Thinking about social work: Theories and methods for practice, Sage, pp. 1-36.
Kirke, D. M. 1995 “Teenage Peer Networks in the Community as Sources of Social Problems: a Sociological Perspective,” in Brugha, T. S. ed., Social Support and Psychiatric Disorder, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 174 - 194.
Papers in refereed Journals
Kirke, D. M. 2008 “Gender clustering in friendship networks: some sociological implications”, Methodological Innovations, pp. 1-15. [In press].
Kirke, D. M. 2008 “Social network analysis and psychological research,” Irish Journal of Psychology, pp. 1-20 [In press]
Kirke, D. M. 2006b “Gender and chain reactions in teenagers’ social networks”, Connections, 27, 1, pp. 15-23.
Kirke, D. M. 2004 "Chain reactions in adolescents' cigarette, alcohol and drug use: similarity through peer influence or the patterning of ties in peer networks?" Social Networks, 26, 1, pp. 3-28.
Freeman, L. C., Webster, C. M. and Kirke, D. M. 1998 “Exploring social structure using dynamic three-dimensional color images,” Social Networks, 20: pp.109-118.
Kirke, D. M. 1996 “Collecting Peer Data and Delineating Peer Networks in a Complete Network,” Social Networks, 18: pp. 333-346.
Kirke, D. M. 1979. “Unmarried mothers: A comparative study”, Economic and Social Review, 10: 2: pp. 157-167.
Scientific Exhibition
Kirke, D. M. 2004-2014. Invited to exhibit “Friendship network of teenagers in a Dublin suburb”, (a three-dimensional image of one network of teenagers) in Exhibition entitled Connections, the Nature of Networks. New York Hall of Science, New York.