Ethnic ingroup friendships in schools: testing the by-product hypothesis in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden

S. Smith, I. Maas, F. van Tubergen

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Abstract

This study set out to examine to what extent ethnic ingroup friendship in secondary school classes are a by-product of cultural and socioeconomic ingroup friendship. Based on homophily theory, we expected similar opinions, leisure activities, religion, risk behaviour and socioeconomic factors to (partly) explain ethnic ingroup preferences. Multilevel p
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)33-45
JournalSocial Networks
Volume39
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

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