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Mollenhorst, Gerald; Volker, Beate; Flap, Henk – Social Forces, 2008
Social contexts in which confidants get to know each other affect the composition of their personal networks, inter alia the similarity among confidants. Results from analyses on a representative sample of the Dutch population between 18 and 65 years of age (SSND 2000), support the idea that differences in similarity among confidants can be…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Social Influences, Context Effect, Interpersonal Relationship
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Dill, Jeffrey S. – Social Forces, 2009
School sector and educational context seem to make a difference in civic socialization. There is limited knowledge, however, of the mechanisms through which socialization may occur in public and private schools, and the extent to which they have any lasting effect. Does the private school effect on civic socialization persist into young adulthood,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Political Socialization, Citizen Participation, Young Adults
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Lutz, Amy – Social Forces, 2006
This paper investigates the effects of individual, family, social and demographic characteristics on the maintenance of Spanish among English-speaking Latino youth. This research finds effects of generation, gender, race, parent's English proficiency, single-parent status, parental income, and neighborhood concentration of co-ethnics as well as…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Youth, Individual Characteristics, Social Characteristics