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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 87–118.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Carina Albrecht; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Laura Kurgan Abstract In a 1954 essay Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton coined the term homophily to describe similarity-based friendship. They based their findings on friendship patterns among neighbors in a biracial housing project in the United States...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., and Laura Kurgan, seeks to do. The authors inquire into the history of the term homophily , coined by Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton in a seminal 1954 essay to refer to similarity-based friendship. Since the publication of this research, which used a combination of empirical and speculative analysis...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Fig. 3. A representation of the network of close friendships excluding residents’ spouses and friends outside Addison Terrace: the network used for Merton’s formulation of the homophily principle.
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Published: 01 June 2021
Fig. 4. A representation of the network of close friendships including named friends who lived outside Addison Terrace. The red (or lighter in grayscale) nodes were excluded from Merton’s formulation of the homophily principle.
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Published: 01 June 2021
Fig. 5. The network of close ties including all named friendships (living inside and outside the village) and spouses. The red and green (or lighter in grayscale) nodes were excluded from Merton’s formulation of the homophily principle.
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Published: 01 June 2021
Fig. 12. Three possible representations of the network used for Merton’s formulation of the homophily principle. The red (or darker in grayscale) dots map the distribution of ambivalence/indifference in this network, based on resident’s responses to questions 27, 32, and 61.
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