properties of their social relations and may exhibit homophily. The Saliyar community cluster in India is an archetype of this …. This cluster’s experience is investigated on how its thickly homophilous networks have steered it from dominance to decline … network analysis of the Saliyars community cluster — in comparison with the networks of the communities in a cluster of a …

Homophily is the tendency to establish relationships among people who share similar characteristics or attributes. This … role of length and closeness of friendships on the degree of homophily. We also exploit the dynamics of the friendship by …’ occupational class proved to be insignificant. We also show that the degree of homophily among friends selected from a random …

We examine the long-run effect of homophily in online social networks on interpersonal interactions in local … communities. We measure online homophily across counties in the US using Facebook data. For identification, we exploit a conflict …

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are … broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based …