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Homophily

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Homophily from Ancient Greek ὁμοῦ (homou, "together") and Greek φιλία (philia, "friendship") is the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others, as in the proverb "birds of a feather flock together". [1]

20 relations: Assortative mating, Assortativity, Echo chamber (media), Ethnic group, Evolutionary biology, Fertility factor (demography), Foreign Affairs, Gender, Groupthink, Heterophily, Homogamy (sociology), Human bonding, Intermingling, Race (human categorization), Sex, Social class, Social network, Social network analysis, Social status, Value (ethics).

Assortative mating

Assortative mating is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.

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Assortativity

Assortativity, or assortative mixing is a preference for a network's nodes to attach to others that are similar in some way.

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Echo chamber (media)

In news media, echo chamber is a metaphorical description of a situation in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.

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Fertility factor (demography)

Fertility factors are determinants of the number of children that an individual is likely to have.

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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

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Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

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Heterophily

Heterophily, or love of the different, is the tendency of individuals to collect in diverse groups; it is the opposite of homophily.

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Homogamy (sociology)

Homogamy is marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally-important way, similar to each other.

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Human bonding

Human bonding is the process of development of a close, interpersonal relationship between two or more people.

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Intermingling

Intermingling, or heterophily, from a sociological perspective includes the various forms of interactions between individuals that go against a particular society's cultural norms. These relationships stem from weak or absent ties, which are contrary to strong ties and constitute of networks between individuals who know little or nothing about one another.

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Race (human categorization)

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.

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Sex

Organisms of many species are specialized into male and female varieties, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves the combining and mixing of genetic traits: specialized cells known as gametes combine to form offspring that inherit traits from each parent.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Social network

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

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Social network analysis

Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory.

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Social status

Social status is the relative respect, competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.

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Value (ethics)

In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily

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