Research has highlighted the importance of peers for determining health behaviors in
adolescents, yet these behaviors have typically been investigated in isolation. We need to …

The use of social network theory and analysis methods as applied to public health has
expanded greatly in the past decade, yielding a significant academic literature that spans …

Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences--and in many cases
defines--the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first …

Adolescent societies—whether arising from weak, short-term classroom friendships or from
close, long-term friendships—exhibit various levels of network clustering, segregation, and …

This study addresses not only influence and selection of friends as sources of similarity in
alcohol use, but also peer processes leading drinkers to be chosen as friends more often …

Middle adolescents' close friendship strength and the degree to which their broader peer
group expressed a preference to affiliate with them were examined as predictors of relative …

We examine gender differences in the extent to which the social network processes of peer
influence and friend selection explain why adolescents tend to exhibit similar risky behaviors …

Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning,
sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of …

Objectives. We investigated the associations between smoking and friend selection in the
social networks of US adolescents. Methods. We used a stochastic actor-based model to …

The problems targeted by preventive interventions are often complex, embedded in multiple
levels of social and environmental context, and span the developmental lifespan. Despite …