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SOCIAL NETWORKS
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages 33-45Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2014.04.003
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Ethnicity; Friendship network; Adolescent; Multilevel p(2) model; Europe
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This study set out to examine to what extent ethnic ingroup friendship in secondary school classes are a by-product of cultural and socioeconomic ingroup friendship. Based on homophily theory, we expected similar opinions, leisure activities, religion, risk behaviour and socioeconomic factors to (partly) explain ethnic ingroup preferences. Multilevel p(2) models on 13,272 pupils in 625 secondary school classes in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden showed that adolescents tend to have friends similar in ethnicity, cultural and socioeconomic characteristics. We find no evidence, however, that ethnic homophily is explained by cultural and socioeconomic homophily. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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