TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1979//
TI  - Socio-economic status and high-school friendship choice: Elmtown's youth revisited
JO  - Social networks
A1  - Cohen, Jere
SP  - 65
EP  - 74
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 "rating-and-dating" 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 /> 
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SN  - 0378-8733
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(79)90011-X
ID  - ref1
ER  -