• Partner choice and parameter estimates: modelling the effect of preferences 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology: University of Limerick, 2019)

  Assortative mating, the process through which people interactively choose each other as spouses, is a complex, consequential and informative phenomenon.1 It has important consequences for the structure of society, for ...
• Cluster analysis stopping rules in Stata 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology; University of Limerick, 2016)

  Analysts doing cluster analysis sometimes want the data to tell them the optimum number of clusters. Common "stopping rules" use the Calinski-Harabasz pseudo-F statistic and Duda-Hart indices, which are based on squared ...
• MICT: multiple imputation for categorical time-series 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology: University of Limerick, 2015)

  The MICT package provides a method for multiple imputation for categorical time-series data such as lifecourse or employment-status histories that preserves longitudinal consistency, using a monotonic series of ...
• Reasonable people v the sinister fringe: interrogating the framing of Ireland’s water charge protestors through the media politics of dissent 

  Power, Martin J.; Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin (Department of Sociology: Universityof Limerick, 2015)

  In this research article we explore the manner in which a particular discursive device, the “sinister fringe” was deployed in national news media coverage of protests against the introduction of water charges in Ireland. ...
• SADI: sequence analysis tools for stata 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2014)

  SADI is a suite of Stata tools for sequence analysis, with a particular focus on holistic comparisons of sequences using measures such as optimal matching distance. It provides a number of distance measures, including • ...
• I am a ‘Humosexual’ and I need to be loved: a queer reading of Morrissey 

  Dillane, Aileen; Power, Martin J.; Devereux, Eoin (Department of Sociology: University of Limerick, 2014)

  no abstract available
• Multiple imputation for life-course sequence data 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012)

  As holistic analysis of life-course sequences becomes more common, using optimal matching (OM) and other approaches the problem of missing data becomes more serious. Longitudinal data is prone to missingness in ways that ...
• Community mental health teams: determinants of effectiveness 

  de Burca, Stefán; Flood, P; Armstrong, Claire; McCurtain, S; Saunders, Jean (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2007)

  Community mental health teams have their Irish origins both in the deinstitutionalisation policy of the 1984 “Planning for the Future” framework1 and the challenge of intervention and recovery strategies for acute ...
• Private troubles, public issues: the Irish sociological imagination 

  O'Connor, Pat (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2005)

  Introduction: When I first read, with great excitement, The Sociological Imagination in the late 1960s, I was an 18 year old University student, in a society that was beginning to wake from its cultural torpor. A reluctant ...
• Breaking the silence: emigration, gender and the making of Irish cultural memory 

  Gray, Breda (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2003)

  In the second half of the twentieth century the relatively new practice of telling, listening to and recording life narratives – variously described as oral history, oral testimony and oral life narrative – gained ...
• Tracks through time and continuous processes: transitions, sequences, and social structure 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2003)

  In the social and economic sciences it appears that there was a pioneering enthusiasm for longitudinal data in the late 1960s and early 1970s, resulting inter alia in the US Panel Study on Income Dynamics (1968) and ...
• Hegemony disguised: how discourse analysis is inadequate in the disclosure of the real locus of social control 

  Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin; Breen, Michael J. (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2004)

  The post-modern world is often characterised as being fragmented in a variety of ways. It is clearly a divided and unequal world. It is divided in ideological terms. It is divided in regional terms. It is divided in terms ...
• A cosy consensus on deviant discourse: how the refugee and asylum seeker meta-narrative has endorsed an interpretive crisis in relation to the transnational politics of world's displaced persons 

  Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin; Breen, Michael J. (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2004)

  Immigration is a key feature in late capitalist societies, with some 20,000,000 displaced persons worldwide. This paper reports on coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in English-language newspapers worldwide, drawing ...
• Remembering a ‘multicultural’ future through a history of emigration: towards a feminist politics of solidarity 

  Gray, Breda (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2004)

  This article investigates the workings of empathy, identification and solidarity across difference and argues that these represent urgent theoretical and political concerns for feminist politics today. It also points to ...
• Cohabitation in Ireland: evidence from survey data 

  Halpin, Brendan; O'Donoghue, Cathal (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2004)

  Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ...
• Engineering relationships for innovation: concerning the feasibility of public policy interventions to engineer inter-firm 

  Haynes, Amanda (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2005)

  Regional development literature and policy has, in recent years, increasingly focused upon mechanisms for engendering inter-firm collaboration at a local level. Co-operation and partnership are regarded as key to encouraging ...
• What’s fat activism? 

  Cooper, Charlotte Rachel Mary (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2008)

  In 21st century Western culture, obesity is such a maligned state of being that the notion of fat activism is unthinkable to most people. "Fat" and "activist" are not words that sit together well in the popular imagination. ...
• Optimal matching analysis and life course data: the importance of duration 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2008)

  The Optimal Matching Algorithm is widely used for sequenace analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences, but is also widely used for life history data, which is continuous in time. ...
• Sequence analysis of life-course data: a comparison of distance measures 

  Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012)

  no abstract available
• Scapegoating in post ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland: framing blame in crisis times 

  Monaghan, Lee F.; O'Flynn, Micheal; Power, Martin J. (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2013)

  Irish society continues to reel in the aftershock of the 2008 global financial crisis, particularly since the government socialised the massive liabilities of private banks. Sensitized to antagonistic social relations ...

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