Social Networks and Multiple Ethnic Identifications Acknowledgements This project was funded by a NSF Dissertation Improvement grant and by the National Science Foundation Award No. BCS to Chris McCarty and Jose Luis Molina. Rosalyn Negrón, Ph.D. UMASS BostonAnthropology 1.Personal networks and ethnic identification: Focus on the relationship between personal network ethnic composition and the use of multiple ethnic identifications. Explores the notion that m ultiple ethnic identifications arise from participation in multiple spheres of social interaction, as reflected in a person’s social network. Figure 2. Ethnically homogeneous network of a Mexican woman in this study. Most alters in her network are Mexican. Figure 1. Ethnically heterogeneous network of a Dominican woman in this study. Alters from the US, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and others. Table 1. Correlations between dominant ethnicity in respondent’s networks and their use of multiple ethnic identifications 5. Ego network ethnic diversity and the use of multiple ethnic identifications A diversity index (IQV) was computed using the categories of the variable “Alter Country of Birth” (k). Egonet was used to calculate the proportion of alters who belonged to each of six ethnic/nationality categories (p). Table 2. Correlations between network ethnic diversity and respondents’ use of multiple ethnic identifications 6. Some Conclusions References Agresti, A. and B. F. Agresti (1977) “Statistical analysis of qualitative variation.” Pgs in K. F. Schuessler (ed.) Sociological Methodology SanFrancisco: Jossey-Bass. McCarty, C. (2003) “Egonet: Software for the Collection of Egocentric Network Data.” MDLogix. Rossi, P.H. and S.L. Noch (1982) “Measuring Social Judgments: The Factorial Survey Approach. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Ethnic Identifications: Latina, Dominicana, Hispana, Cibaeña, Capitaleña, Caribeña, Morenita, Dominicana- Americana, Española, Americana Ethnic Identifications: Mexicana, Latina, Tlapanecos, Hispana Dominant Ethnicity Represented in Ego Nets (> 70% of network) No. of Ethnic IDs Used No. of Times Switched Ethnic ID American Dominican Mexican Puerto Rican Other Colombian Spearman Correlation Coefficients, N = 101 Prob > |r| under H0: Rho=0 4. Dominant ethnicity in ego network and use of multiple ethnic identifications No. of Ethnic IDs Used No. of Times Switched Ethnic ID Network Ethnic Diversity (IQV) Pearson Correlation Coefficients, N = 101 Prob > |r| under H0: Rho=0 2. Network ethnic homogeneity vs. heterogeneity: Hypothesis: people with ethnically heterogeneous personal networks (see Figure 1) are more likely to have multiple ethnic IDs than people with ethnically homogeneous networks (see Figure 2). 3. Study: Location: New York, NY 101 respondents from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Mexico. Data collection: Personal network survey using Egonet (McCarty 2003) - 45 alters, data on network composition and structure. Factorial survey (Rossi & Noch 1982) to assess ethnic identification switching. Ethnic identification survey to elicit list of all the ethnic categories resps identified with. Network visualization interviews Hypothesis confirmed– the number of ethnic IDs used was positively correlated with network ethnic diversity (.0058). People having networks where Dominicans are the majority are less likely to switch between ethnic IDs (.0043). People having networks where “Other” ethnicities predominate are more likely to switch between multiple ethnic IDs (.0008). People having networks where Americans pre- dominate use a greater variety of ethnic IDs (.0170). Index of Qualitative Variation (IQV) / Diversity Index (Agresti and Agresti 1977) IQV = 1 – Σ p2 / (1 – 1/k) Where k = number of categories of the variable and p = percentage of individuals in a given category