Bridging and Bonding in the Academic Melting Pot: Cultural Resources and Network Diversity

Sociological Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-69

  Benediktsson, Mike Owen ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Culture; Education; Friendship; Race; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856643046     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: 15737861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2011.01301.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Allport, Gordon W. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
2. Antonio, Anthony L. 2001. "The Role of Interracial Interaction in the Development of Leadership Skills and Cultural Knowledge and Understanding, " Research in Higher Education 42(5): 593-617.
3. Attinasi Jr, Louis C. 1989. "Getting In: Mexican Americans' Perceptions of University Attendance and the Implications for Freshman Year Persistence, " Journal of Higher Education 60(3): 247-277.
4. Bafumi, Joseph, and Andrew Gelman 2007. "Fitting Multilevel Models When Predictors and Group Effects Correlate, " SSRN eLibrary. Retrieved January 2, 2011
5. Blanchard, Troy C. 2007. "Conservative Protestant Congregations and Racial Residential Segregation: Evaluating the Closed Community Thesis in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, " American Sociological Review 72(3): 416-433.
6. Blau, Peter M. 1977. Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure. New York: Free Press.
7. Coleman, James S. 1958. "Relational Analysis: The Study of Social Organizations with Survey Methods, " Human Organization 17(4): 28-36.
8. Currarini, Sergio, Matthew O. Jackson, and Paulo Pin 2010. "Identifying the Roles of Race-Based Choice and Chance in High School Friendship Network Formation, " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 4857-4861.
9. D'Augelli, Anothony R., and Scott L. Hershberger 1993. "African American Undergraduates on a Predominantly White Campus: Academic Factors, Social Networks, and Campus Climate, " Journal of Negro Education 62(1): 67-81.
10. DiMaggio, Paul. 1982. "Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America, " Media, Culture & Society 4(1): 33-50.
11. DiMaggio, Paul. 1987. "Classification in Art, " American Sociological Review 52(4): 440-455.
12. DiMaggio, Paul. 2004. "Gender, Networks, and Cultural Capital, " Poetics 32(2): 99-103.
13. DiMaggio, Paul, and Francie Ostrower 1990. "Participation in the Arts by Black and White Americans, " Social Forces 68(3): 753-778.
14. Emerson, Michael O., and Christian Smith 2000. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. Erickson, Bonnie H. 1996. "Culture, Class, and Connections, " American Journal of Sociology 102(1): 217-251.
16. Feld, Scott L. 1981. "The Focused Organization of Social Ties, " American Journal of Sociology 86(5): 1015-1035.
17. Feldman, Kenneth A., and Theodore M. Newcomb 1993. The Impact of College on Students. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
18. Fine, Gary A. 1995. "Wittgenstein's Kitchen: Sharing Meaning in Restaurant Work, " Theory and Society 24(2): 245-269.
19. Fischer, Claude S. 1982. To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
20. Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual; Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
21. Gurin, Patricia, Eric L. Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin 2002. "Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes, " Harvard Educational Review 72(3): 330-367.
22. Hallinan, Maureen T. 1982. "Classroom Racial Composition and Children's Friendships, " Social Forces 61(1): 56-72.
23. Hallinan, Maureen T., and Steven S. Smith 1985. "The Effects of Classroom Racial Composition on Students' Interracial Friendliness, " Social Psychology Quarterly 48(1): 3-16.
24. Hallinan, Maureen T., and Richard A. Williams 1989. "Interracial Friendship Choices in Secondary Schools, " American Sociological Review 54(1): 67-78.
25. Hurtado, Sylvia, and Deborah F. Carter 1997. "Effects of College Transition and Perceptions of the Campus Racial Climate on Latino College Students' Sense of Belonging, " Sociology of Education 70(4): 324-345.
26. Hurtado, Sylvia, Jeffrey F. Milem, Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, and Walter R. Allen 1998. "Enhancing Campus Climates for Racial/Ethnic Diversity: Educational Policy and Practice, " Review of Higher Education 21: 279-302.
27. Kane, Danielle. 2004. "A Network Approach to the Puzzle of Women's Cultural Participation, " Poetics 32(2): 105-127.
28. Lamont, Michele, and Annette Lareau 1988. "Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments, " Sociological Theory 6(2): 153-168.
29. Lamont, Michele, and Virag Molnar 2002. "The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences, " Annual Review of Sociology 28(1): 167-195.
30. Lizardo, Omar. 2006. "How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks, " American Sociological Review 71(5): 778-807.
31. Marsden, Peter V. 1987. "Core Discussion Networks of Americans, " American Sociological Review 52(1): 122-131.
32. McPherson, Miller, and Lynn Smith-Lovin 1987. "Homophily in Voluntary Organizations: Status Distance and the Composition of Face-to-Face Groups, " American Sociological Review 52(3): 370-379.
33. McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M. Cook 2001. "Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks, " Annual Review of Sociology 27(1): 415-444.
34. Milem, Jeffrey F., and Kenji Hakuta 2000. "The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education, " in Minorities in Higher Education: Seventeenth Annual Status Report: pp. 39-67. Washington, DC: American Council on Education.
35. Moody, James. 2001. "Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America, " American Journal of Sociology 107(3): 679-716.
36. Nagasawa, Richard, and Paul Wong 1999. "A Theory of Minority Students' Survival in College, " Sociological Inquiry 69(1): 76-90.
37. Newcomb, Theodore M. 1962. "Student Peer-Group Influence, " in Nevitt Sanford (ed.), The American College: A Psychological and Social Interpretation of the Higher Learning: pp. 469-488. New York: Wiley.
38. Pachucki, M. A., and R. L. Breiger 2010. "Cultural Holes: Beyond Relationality in Social Networks and Culture, " Annual Review of Sociology 36: 205-224.
39. Pettit, B. 1999. "Cultural Capital and Residential Mobility: A Model of Impersistence in Place, " Poetics 26(3): 177-199.
40. Putnam, Robert D. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
41. Quillian, L., and M. E. Campbell 2003. "Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation, " American Sociological Review 68(4): 540-566.
42. Schofield, J. W., and H. A. Sagar 1977. "Peer Interaction Patterns in an Integrated Middle School, " Sociometry 40(2): 130-138.
43. Stuber, Jenny M. 2009. "Class, Culture, and Participation in the Collegiate Extra-Curriculum, " Sociological Forum 24(4): 877-900.
44. Swidler, A. 1986. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies, " American Sociological Review 51(2): 273-286.
45. Tinto, V. 1987. Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
46. Tinto, V. 1988. "Stages of Student Departure: Reflections on the Longitudinal Character of Student Leaving, " Journal of Higher Education 59(4): 438-455.
47. Vaisey, S., and O. Lizardo 2010. "Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition? Social Forces 88(4): 1595-1618.
48. Weber, Max. 1946. "The Social Psychology of the World Religions, " in H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: pp. 267-301. New York: Oxford University Press (Orig. pub. 1922-1923).
49. Wimmer, Andreas, and Kevin Lewis 2010. "Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: Erg Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook, " American Journal of Sociology 116(2): 583-642.