Community Social Indicators. [Report No.: R-85

Autor/in	Rossi, Peter H.
Institution	Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Center for the Study of Social Organization of Schools.
Titel	Community Social Indicators. [Report No.: R-85
Quelle	(1970), (85 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Characteristics; Community Planning; Family (Sociological Unit); Institutions; Population Distribution; Residential Patterns; Social Influences; Social Psychology; Social Relations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familie; Demographical distribution; Bevölkerungsverteilung; Wohnsituation; Sozialer Einfluss; Sozialpsychologie; Soziale Beziehung
Abstract	This paper develops a conceptual scheme which takes the global conception of community and breaks it down into important components. Existing definitions of community tend to confuse two very different classes of social relations, symbiotic and commensalistic, a very clear differentiation being made between the two in the paper. The paper proposes that researchers use the concept of residential locality, defined as arbitrary geographical areas inhabited by households, persons, and institutions. Several important ways of characterizing residential localities are presented, each leading to researches which would assess the effects of living in particularly residential localities upon those who have their addresses in those places. In addition to specifying meaningful dimensions of residential localities, the author suggests operational forms of each dimension and discusses some of the measurement problems which may arise. The conceptual framework plus the operational forms provide ways of designing empirical studies which would sort out the effects of residential localities from other contingent factors. (KJ/Author)
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Update	2004/1/01