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McFarland, D. A., Moody, J., Diehl, D., Smith, J. A., & Thomas, R. J. (2014). Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure. American sociological review, 79(6), 1088-1121. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414554001
McFarland, Daniel A, et al. "Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure." American sociological review vol. 79,6 (2014): 1088-1121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414554001
McFarland DA, Moody J, Diehl D, Smith JA, Thomas RJ. Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure. Am Sociol Rev. 2014 Dec 01;79(6):1088-1121. doi: 10.1177/0003122414554001. PMID: 25535409; PMCID: PMC4271807.
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Am Sociol Rev. 2014 Dec 01;79(6):1088-1121. doi: 10.1177/0003122414554001.

Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure.

American sociological review

Daniel A McFarland, James Moody, David Diehl, Jeffrey A Smith, Reuben J Thomas

Affiliations

  1. Stanford University.
  2. Duke University.
  3. Vanderbilt University.
  4. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  5. University of New Mexico.

PMID: 25535409 PMCID: PMC4271807 DOI: 10.1177/0003122414554001

Abstract

Adolescent societies-whether arising from weak, short-term classroom friendships or from close, long-term friendships-exhibit various levels of network clustering, segregation, and hierarchy. Some are rank-ordered caste systems and others are flat, cliquish worlds. Explaining the source of such structural variation remains a challenge, however, because global network features are generally treated as the agglomeration of micro-level tie-formation mechanisms, namely balance, homophily, and dominance. How do the same micro-mechanisms generate significant variation in global network structures? To answer this question we propose and test a network ecological theory that specifies the ways features of organizational environments moderate the expression of tie-formation processes, thereby generating variability in global network structures across settings. We develop this argument using longitudinal friendship data on schools (Add Health study) and classrooms (Classroom Engagement study), and by extending exponential random graph models to the study of multiple societies over time.

Keywords: Adolescents; Ecological Models; Hierarchy; Schools; Social Networks

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