A Cross-National Comparison of Some Social Patterns of Urban Pedestrians

Bibliographic Data

ID2315364
AuthorsWilliam R Berkowitz (University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume2
Issue2
Pages129-144
Publication date1971-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002202217100200202
OpenAlexW2142924686
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited16

An observational study of urban pedestrians in six national groupings was undertaken to provide quantitative cross-cultural data on various social behaviors in a naturalistic setting. At 155 sampling points in shopping, park, and entertainment areas within major cities in 3 Moslem countries (Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan), England, West Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the United States, E recorded grouping, interaction, and physical contact patterns of 21, 316 pedestrians by sex and five estimated age categories. In representative major findings, national tendency to form groups was in the order given above, there were few national differences in interaction frequency, and Italians, West Germans, and Englishmen contacted more than Americans, Swedes, and Moslems

Archaeology · Entertainment · Geography · National park · Observational study · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics · Medicine · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Urban Transport and Accessibility

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub