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Ditching a friend who is not like you can deepen social inequality

  • Written by Mark C. Pachucki, Associate Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
imageNewly released research of residents in northern California suggests that since the 2016 presidential election, some friendship groups have become more homogeneous. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Since the 2016 presidential election, news accounts and scientific research have illustrated how defriending, a term originally associated with...

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