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Emily C. Fox (she/her)

@emilycfox.bsky.social

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Sociology PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara - researching friendship, relational work, culture, gender, sexuality

Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Imagine my delight this morning while reading this from my inbox, thinking “wow, she really nailed this one,” and then seeing A SHOUT OUT TO MY NEW ARTICLE 🥺

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Grateful for all the attention my new article received in the past week! I started this project in the beginning of 2020 (my second quarter of grad school), and I’m so happy it’s finally out in the world

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Other research suggests it likely would play a role for older adults. Married / cohabitating people generally have fewer friends and spend less time with those friends than singles. Off the top of my mind, I can't think of any studies breaking this down by race, though! @ladintoplu.bsky.social

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Hi Ladin! The participants were 18-21 years old at the time of the NLSY97 survey year I used, so not many were married (I just pulled up the data again and only 34 are married with spouse present, 6 married with spouse absent).

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thanks for sharing this with your network, Nicole! It's been fascinating to read the replies and quotes

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

If you're interested in learning more about gender, sexuality (which I unfortunately couldn't explore in this study due to data limitations), and friendship, check out my review article: doi.org/10.1111/soc4...

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Toward a Sociological Perspective on the Gender and Sexuality of Friendship

This article reviews friendship research to offer a conceptual framework that helps us better understand the co-constructive nature of gender, sexuality, and friendship in the United States. Scholars...

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I found that U.S. white young men report feeling least close to their best friends compared to all women and Black and Latino men. And while this finding may seem unsurprising to many, it actually hadn't been demonstrated empirically with representative data before now.

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Author here: White men reported feeling closer to women best friends, while white women reported feeling less close to men best friends (~10% of white respondents said their best friend was a different gender). No differences by best friend gender for Black or Latinx men and women.

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Emily C. Fox (she/her) @emilycfox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Thank you so much for this resource! Could I please be added?

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