Empirical Considerations on the Problem of Social Integration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2273607
AutoresAida K Tomeh (Bowling Green State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1969
Volumen39
Número1
Páginas65-76
Fecha de publicación1969-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.1969.tb00941.x
OpenAlexW2085659764
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas21

The present study analyzes differences in perception of neighborhood and residential mobility as related to formal and informal participation. Results show that perceived similarity is related to neighborhood participation, while residential mobility is related to formal group membership. These relationships, with very few exceptions, seem to persist even in the presence of other control variables like age, education and religion. A significant proportion of the urban community participates frequently with neighbors and belongs to church and other formal groups. These activities are generally high in the suburb and low in the inner city regardless of differences in perception of neighborhood and residential mobility except for membership in organizational groups: the high membership in the suburb occurs under conditions of perceived similarity. The theoretical implications suggest a re-evaluation of the mode of life in the modern urban community and emphasize the significance of taking the perceptual as well as the behavioral context into account in sociological analysis

Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Geography · Perception · Similarity (geometry) · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Social Psychology