Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook1

By Andreas Wimmer, Kevin Lewis. American Journal of Sociology, 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Misery Does Not Love Company (2011, background): “In addition, network processes can amplify effects of other selection processes (Wimmer and Lewis 2010).”
Race and racism in Internet Studies: A review and critique (2013, background): “…networks among a sample of college students who posted pictures of themselves ( N = 736) on Facebook suggests that friend selection is not solely attributable to race, but complicated by other variables, such as ethnicity, region and membership in elite institutions (Wimmer and Lewis, 2010).”
Selling Out?: The Politics of Navigating Conflicts between Racial Group Interest and Self-interest (2014, background): “A recent study of friendship networks on Facebook, for example, found that black students were significantly more likely to have same-race social networks than other racial groups (Wimmer and Lewis 2010).”
Hiring as Cultural Matching (2012, background): “…preferences in the sociological literature, my findings suggest a return to the original articulations of these concepts (Kanter 1977; Lazarsfeld and Merton 1954), which also portray cultural similarities as important bases of attraction and stratification (see also Wimmer and Lewis 2010).”
Network Effects and Social Inequality (2012, background): “…the impact of homophily on network effects is complicated by a lack of research on how choice homophily operates in practice, that is, on the choice processes that constitute choice homophily or (excepting Wimmer & Lewis 2010) on the constraints that generate structural homophily.”
Models of Social Influence: Towards the Next Frontiers (2017, background): “…derive the assumption of a similarity bias from one of the most prevalent regularities of social life, known as the principle of “homophily” (Lazarsfeld & Merton 1954; McPherson et al. 2001; Wimmer & Lewis 2010), according to which people more likely interact and communicate with similar others.”
Racial and ethnic imbalance in neuroscience reference lists and intersections with gender (2020, background): “Prior work in other fields has suggested that homophily according to both gender and race/ethnicity exists in human relationships (41, 42); furthermore, gender homophily exists in scientific co-authorship (43–45).”
Understanding network formation in strategy research: Exponential random graph models (2016, methodology): “Thus, in our application, we adopt these new specifications to examine structural effects, following prior research (Goodreau et al., 2009; Wimmer and Lewis, 2010).”
Academic self-efficacy, growth mindsets, and university students' integration in academic and social support networks (2018, background): “The proximity effect also tends to lead to friendships and sharing personal issues (Fehr, 1996; Katz, Lazer, Arrow, & Contractor, 2004; Van Duijn, Zeggelink, Huisman, Stokman, & Wasseur, 2003; Wimmer & Lewis, 2010).”
Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research (2014, background): “Several studies have leveraged a Facebook policy that allowed people affiliated with the same university to see a more detailed user profile than is otherwise generally available (Lewis et al. 2008, 2011; Wimmer & Lewis 2010).”