Motives and Contexts of Identity Change: A Case for Network Effects

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Gender, Body Size and Social Relations in American High Schools (2008, background): “Further, adolescents are 1192 • Social Forces Volume 86, Number 3 • March 2008 more likely than children or adults to punish difference and incorporate social feedback into their self-concepts (Eder, Parker and Evans 1995; Elkind 1967; McFarland and Pals 2005).”
Network Effects and Social Inequality (2012, background): “Cohen (1977), Mercken et al. (2009), and Flashman (2012), for example, find large selection effects in high-school peer groups, whereas McFarland & Pals (2005) find little selection between middle school and early high school.”
How Visitors and Locals at a Sport Event Differ in Motives and Identity (2008, background): “By attending an event and discoursing with others, fans affirm and Journal of Sport & Tourism 167 strengthen their consequent identity as fans (Holt, 1995; McFarland & Pals, 2005).”
Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition? (2010, background): “Given the thin empirical record of the primary mechanism through which social network theorists envision “network effects” on culture (but see McFarland and Pals 2005), we argue that the question of reciprocal effects between cultural orientations and network composition is much more open than most…”