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Ethnic ingroup friendships in schools: Testing the by-product hypothesis in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden

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2014-10

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Smith, SanneISNI 000000041954055X
Maas, InekeISNI 0000000109393347
van Tubergen, FrankORCID 0000-0002-6415-2877ISNI 0000000383575215

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2014.04.003

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Abstract

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 p2 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.

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Adolescent, Ethnicity, Europe, Friendship network, Sociology and Political Science, General Social Sciences, Anthropology, General Psychology

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Smith, S, Maas, I & van Tubergen, F 2014, 'Ethnic ingroup friendships in schools : Testing the by-product hypothesis in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden', Social Networks, vol. 39, pp. 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2014.04.003

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https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/302590