Same spaces, different races: What can cafeteria seating patterns tell us about intergroup relations in middle school?

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 611-620

  Echols, Leslie ^a   Solomon, Brett J ^b   Graham, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cafeteria methodology; Entropy; Exposure; Intergroup relations; Segregation indices

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SITTING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RELATION; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84925753899     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036943     Document Type: Article

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