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

Sanne Smith; Ineke Maas; Frank van Tubergen

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2014.04.003

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

Sanne Smith^*, Ineke Maas, Frank 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 p₂ models on 13,272 pupils in 625 secondary school classes in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden showed that adolescents tend to have friends similar in ethnicity, cultural and socioeconomic characteristics. We find no evidence, however, that ethnic homophily is explained by cultural and socioeconomic homophily.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	33-45
Number of pages	13
Journal	Social Networks
Volume	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2014.04.003
Publication status	Published - Oct 2014

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Adolescent
Ethnicity
Europe
Friendship network

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