The landscape is composed of a series of mountains, each representing an academic subject or homophilous social category. The relative degree of in-group preference is represented by the height of each mountain... The relative size of a category corresponds to the volume of the corresponding mountain. Finally, the social distance between the various categories- calculated on the basis of the number of actual versus expected ties between category numbers- is plotted on a two- dimensional space.
A fascinating paper by Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis decomposes homophilic social ties through THE social network (book of faces) using picture tags of a freshman class at "a selective New England private college." Interestingly, they find that racial homophily is trumped by both proximity (sharing a dorm) and academic major, specifically economics and biology (no surprise there, social capital is a survival tool).
In case you haven't interacted much with that mountain, the Select 16.
A fascinating paper by Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis decomposes homophilic social ties through THE social network (book of faces) using picture tags of a freshman class at "a selective New England private college." Interestingly, they find that racial homophily is trumped by both proximity (sharing a dorm) and academic major, specifically economics and biology (no surprise there, social capital is a survival tool).
In case you haven't interacted much with that mountain, the Select 16.
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