Sex differences in the structure and stability of children’s playground social networks and their overlap with friendship relations

Sex differences in social networks

are connected in an overriding culture of the classroom and playground. The forces at work at this
higher level as well as between networks may also have important implications for sex differences.
However, in contrast to a notion of hierarchically nested contexts and re-emphasising Sutton-
Smith’s point presented earlier, it is probably closer to the nature of human experience that these
multiple layers are embedded and intertwined within everyday interactions and proximal processes
without contextual boundaries. Either way, further detailed research is needed to compare the
interactive forces and processes within and between male and female networks.

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