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Social discrimination in high school students’ networks: testing ethnic boundaries and the effects of ethnic composition

Chris Baerveldt. Social discrimination in high school students’ networks: testing ethnic boundaries and the effects of ethnic composition. Presented at RSS, London 29th of June 2010. Research questions. Do ethnic boundaries exist in schools? Do students socially discriminate?

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Social discrimination in high school students’ networks: testing ethnic boundaries and the effects of ethnic composition

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  1. Chris Baerveldt Social discrimination inhigh school students’ networks:testingethnicboundariesandtheeffectsof ethnic composition Presented at RSS, London 29th of June 2010.

  2. Research questions • Do ethnic boundaries exist in schools? • Do students socially discriminate? • What is the effect of ethnic composition in school and neighbourhood on social discrimination?

  3. Approach:social networks

  4. Figure 1: A classroom network, defined by friendship ties

  5. Social discrimination? • Ethnic boundaries = Friendship choices when available: • Caused by inclinations/preferences • Therefore, controlling for other causes • Gender, age, importance school friends, network effects # intra ethnic friendships # inter ethnic friendships > # intra ethnic dyads # inter ethnic dyads

  6. Flanders (VLO) 34 TSO networks 3rd year random selection 1010 students age 14-15 best friend network 3rd generation ethno, western Netherlands (DSBS) 19 MAVO networks 4rth year opportunistic selection 1236 students age 15-16 best friend network 2nd generation ethno, homeland Example: data

  7. Who are your best friends in this year of MAVO /TSO? (fill in codes of fellow students, when appropriate) Friendship item in both studies

  8. --> Figure 1 again: A classroom network, defined by friendship ties

  9. Table 1: Friendships at school Source: Baerveldt et al. (2007).

  10. Flanders (VLO) 3rd generation Criteria: Grandmother’s homeland Nationality, language, … Categories Western majority ↔all non western Minority percentage 14% Netherlands (DSBS) 2nd generation Criteria Parents homeland Categories Dutch, 4 ethnic minorities, mixed Minority percentage 37% Measuring ‘ethnicity’

  11. Results:Ethnic boundaries?

  12. Social discrimination?

  13. Discrimination by ethnicity, or by gender, or just an effect of reciprocity?

  14. Assessing social discrimination • Effect ethnic similarity on p(friendship) • Controlling for • Competing similarities (gender) • Dependence in relations, like reciprocity • Effects of student characteristics on • Number of nominated friendships • Popularity

  15. Table 4: Major results of p2 analysis

  16. Ethnic composition and social discrimination?

  17. Table 5: Composition effects: theory and hypotheses Source: Vermeij, Van Duijn & Baerveldt (2009)

  18. Table 6: context effects in multilevel p2

  19. Table 7: Composition effects: hypotheses and results Source: Vermeij, Van Duijn & Baerveldt (2009)

  20. Discussion • Discrimination: no hard feelings, but hard choices. • Theory: new directions? • Contact hyp.: strength of weak ties • Methods: complete networks • Between countries?

  21. The End

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