Facebook study finds race trumped by ethnic, social, geographic origins in forging friendships
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 13:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Race may not be as important as previously thought in determining who buddies up with whom, suggests the UCLA-Harvard study of American college students on Facebook. Sociologists have long maintained that race is the strongest predictor of whether two Americans will socialize. But the study found that such factors as where you live, your country of origin and your social class can provide stronger grounds for forging friendships than a shared racial background.
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