Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller, Batoul Safieddine, Juliane Tetzlaff, Siegfried Geyer
Widening Educational Inequalities in Physical Health Due to the Obesity Trend?-A Mediation Analysis Using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study
International journal of public health
mechanisms governing composition formal social groups eg task groups organizational founding teams remain poorly understood owing 1 lack representative sampling groups found general population 2 success bias among researchers leads consider groups actually emerge survive 3 restrictive focus theorized mechanisms group composition eg homophily exclusion others shortcomings addressed analyzing unique representative data set organizational founding teams sampled us population rather simply considering properties founding teams empirically observed novel quantitative methodology generates distribution possible teams based combinations individual relational characteristics methodology permits exploration five mechanisms group compositionthose based homophily functionality status expectations network constraint ecological constraint findings suggest homophily network constraints based strong ties pronounced effect group composition social isolation ie exclusion group likely occur result ecological constraints availability similar alters locality result status varying membership choices