Ethnic segregation of friendship networks in school: Testing a rational-choice argument of differences in ethnic homophily between classroom- and grade-level networks

Social Networks

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-26

  Leszczensky, Lars ^a   Pink, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethnic homophily; Friendship networks; Longitudinal network analysis; Network boundaries; Segregation; Siena

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925128422     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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