Homophily and the focused organization of ties

The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 521-543

  Feld, Scott ^a   Grofman, Bernard ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformity; Focused organization; Heterogeneity; Homophily; Network autocorrelation; Preferences; Segmentation; Segregation; Social structure; Social ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061149018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199215362.013.22     Document Type: Chapter

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