Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness | Nature
Social disconnection across socioeconomic lines is explained by both differences in exposure to people with high socioeconomic status and friending bias—the tendency for people to befriend peers with similar socioeconomic status even conditional on exposure.
Main Many researchers and policy-makers have raised concerns that societies around the world are fragmented and polarized, with little interaction across racial, political and class lines1,2,3,4,8. In addition to being of potential concern in its own right, a lack of interaction between different groups of people is associated with worse economic and social outcomes4,5,6. For example, in our companion paper7, we used data on social networks from Facebook to show that communities in which people with low SES interact less with people with high SES exhibit less upward income mobility across…
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