@article{ref1,
title="Socio-economic status and high-school friendship choice: Elmtown's youth revisited",
journal="Social networks",
year="1979",
author="Cohen, Jere",
volume="2",
number="1",
pages="65-74",
abstract="Whereas Hollingshead's 1942 study of Elmtown High found socio-economic status homophily to be a prime criterion in students' friendship and dating choices, the present study, a secondary analysis of James Coleman's 1958 Elmtown data, finds socio-economic status homophily unimportant for friendship and dating choices. This decline in status homophily occurred at a time when class distinctions were becoming blurred in Elmtown and the &quot;rating-and-dating&quot; system was losing in national importance. Status homophily is not a constant, but a variable: clear class distinctions facilitate status homophily, while shifting class and occupational systems make for class-heterogeneous social networks.<p />",
language="",
issn="0378-8733",
doi="10.1016/0378-8733(79)90011-X",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(79)90011-X"
}