ERC Starting Grant · 2022
The Interplay of Children’s and Parents’ Networks in Shaping Each Other’s Social Worlds
As our social worlds remain divided by categories such as ethnicity, religion, and social class, attenuating social boundaries is paramount to creating equal opportunities and building cohesive societies. Segregated networks mark boundaries from childhood on and persist through adolescence and beyond. Research stresses parents’ influence on children’s contacts, but it largely neglects that children also influence their parents’ contacts. If we do not account for the interplay of children’s and parents’ networks, we may draw wrong conclusions about how segregation emerges and under which conditions it persists or diminishes. Since younger generations are more diverse, we must understand…
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