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Christofer Edling

Christofer Edling

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Christofer Edling

Triadic Closure in Core Networks : Disentangling the Effects of Social Distance, National Origin Similarity and Shared Contexts

Author

  • Gerald Mollenhorst
  • Marijtje van Duijn
  • Jens Rydgren
  • Christofer Edling

Summary, in English

Acknowledging that the composition and structure of personal networks is affected by meeting opportunities, social distance, and national origin similarity, we aim to disentangle their association with triadic closure in the core of personal networks. We use data (collected 2009) on the core networks of three groups of Swedes (all born in 1990): native Swedes, and firstand second-generation immigrants from Iran and former Yugoslavia, where the respondent (ego) mentions up to five core network members (alters) and whether each pair of alters (dyad) know each other (triadic closure). A threelevel multiple membership logistic regression model is performed, which allows the testing of dyadic alter-alter effects, ego effects, and their interaction (i.e., ‘triadic’ effects) on triadic closure. We show that social distance, national origin similarity, and the sharing of social contexts are all associated with triadic closure in the expected direction, and that the effects of social distance and national origin similarity become smaller if shared social contexts are taken into account. The effects of the sharing of social contexts are the largest and are robust, indicating that shared social contexts are a dominant and more important condition for triadic closure than are similarity on relevant socio-demographic characteristics.

Department/s

  • Sociology
  • Faculty of Social Sciences

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

146-146

Publication/Series

International Review of Social Research

Volume

6

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

De Gruyter

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • triadic closure
  • personal relationships
  • core networks
  • social contexts
  • meeting opportunities
  • similarity
  • social distance
  • national origin

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2069-8534