African American and European American children in diverse elementary classrooms: Social integration, social status, and social behavior

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1454-1469

  Wilson, Travis ^a   Rodkin, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SCHOOL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 80052605553     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01634.x     Document Type: Article

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