Gender, Friendship networks and Academic success

Abstract

This paper empirically examines the relationship between friendship networks and academic success based on exam results, particulary concern to gender differences. It is based on a social survey data from Economic Faculty 1st. course undertaken in 1992 by Sociology Dept. (Malaga U.). The main results was, on one hand, positive influence of friendship relations on exam results in men and negative in women; and the other hand, network variables have stronger incidence on men’s academic success than women’s.