Before revision: Status vs. value In their original formulation of homophily, Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton (1954) distinguished between status homophily and value homophily , find that individuals with similar social status characteristics are more likely to associate with each other than by chance:Lazarsfeld, Paul F., and Merton, Robert K. 1954.
After revision: Status vs. value In their original formulation of homophily, Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton (1954) distinguished between status homophily and value homophily ; individuals with similar social status characteristics were more likely to associate with each other than by chance:Lazarsfeld, Paul F., and Merton, Robert K. 1954.