This study explores variation in composition and strength of close friendship ties across
timing and contexts of tie formation. Analyzing South Korean survey data and comparing it …

Previous studies on adolescent friendship network formation emphasize the roles played by
individual characteristics, structural opportunities, and endogenous tie formation processes …

Partnership ties shape friendship networks through different social forces. First, partnership
ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who are in a partnership tend to have …

While we know that adolescents tend to befriend peers who share their race and gender, it is
unclear whether patterns of homophily vary according to the strength, intimacy, or …

Homophily is one of the robust findings in social network studies. It persists even in a diverse
population where the opportunity to develop homogeneous friendship is not greater than a …

Tie-formation mechanisms like homophily, reciprocity, transitivity, and preferential
attachment operate to varying degrees across contexts. Romantic ties tend to be …

Research on social networks has grown considerably in the last decades. Network
scholarship addresses existing theoretical and empirical voids, such as the meaning of the …

Despite the growing potential for multiplexity in our complex social world, social network
methodology often does not adequately capture this phenomenon. Most commonly in …

Previous research finds that individuals tend to form ties with similar others much more often
than with dissimilar others. However, we know relatively little about tie loss and to what …

Homophily, or the tendency for social contact to occur among those who are similar, plays a
crucial role in structuring our social networks. Most previous work considers whether …