A Blau space primer: prolegomenon to an ecology of affiliation

By M. McPherson. 2004

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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In Public Administration

1. Lynn Smith-Lovin
2. Michael W. Macy
3. Scott A. Golder

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Michael W. Macy
2. Lynn Smith-Lovin
3. Scott A. Golder
4. Tom A. B. Snijders

Citations in the corpus

• The Strength of Weak Identities: Social Structural Sources of Self, Situation and Emotional Experience (2007, background): “More importantly, McPherson (2004) argues that salient dimensions of social differentiation become less correlated in large systems.”
• Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research (2014, background): “As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that demographic differences in opinions (e.g., the social liberalism of college graduates) are spuriously generated or exaggerated by the unmeasured effects of peer influence (Della Posta et al. 2013, McPherson 2004, Salganik et al. 2006).”