When Ethnicity and Gender Align: Classroom Composition, Friendship Segregation, and Collective Identities in European Schools
Autor: | Hanno Kruse, Clemens Kroneberg, Andreas Wimmer |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050402 sociology
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Zdroj: | European Sociological Review |
ISSN: | 0266-7215 |
DOI: | 10.1093/esr/jcab013 |
Popis: | Using survey data on school classes in four European countries, we study how the social relations and identities of adolescents develop depending on the degree to which ethnic and gender boundaries align with each other. Minority students will have mostly same-ethnic friends, we find, when classmates of different ethnic origins tend to be of the opposite sex as well. Within such local topographies of boundaries, minority students will also end up identifying less as members of the nation. In contrast, majority students are not affected by the alignment of ethnic and gender boundaries, and gender identities of both minorities and majorities are less malleable as well: Neither friendship segregation along gender divides nor the development of gender role attitudes depend on the degree to which gender and ethnic origin align. We argue that gender boundaries and feelings of national belonging among majority students are widely taken for granted and thus less sensitive to attribute alignment at the local level. The article builds a bridge between the literatures on ethnic segregation of friendship networks, adolescent ethnic identities, and gender role attitudes by integrating them into a structuralist framework that identifies the conditions under which the local configuration of boundaries affects social life. |
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