A Theory of Moral Integration in Large Cities

Finding Patrons for Peace Psychology: The Foundations of the Conflict Resolution Movement at the University of Michigan, 1951–1971

“…In spite of his strong disciplinary affiliation to sociology, he developed a series of studies in collaboration with the psychologists Rensis Likert and Eugene Jacobson at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan in 1947 again with the financial help of the Michigan's graduate fund, the Rackham Fund. In the resulting papers (published four years later as a supplement to the American Journal of Sociology ), he defined the concept of “moral integration” as “the degree to which the areas of possible friction or conflict within the group are covered by a set of moral norms that are accepted and implemented by all” (Angell, , p. 115) . Employing a Durkheimian perspective, he tried to explain “anomic” situations in American large cities as the result of insufficient moral integration.…”

Digital Media and the Convergence of Geographic Cultures

“…The relation between city and country was of central importance for modernization theorists well into the twentieth century (Angell 1951;Gerschenkron 1962;Lipset 1959;Miner 1952;Wirth 1938). Many judge the rise of cities as a positive, albeit painful, stage of historical progress.…”

Developing Empirically Derived City Typologies: An Application of Cluster Analysis

“…The unidimensional approaches (e.g., Harris, 1943; Ohlson, 1945;Jones, Forstall, and Collver, 1963) do not take into account the multidimensional nature of a city's structure nor the interactive interrelationships to the determinants of that structure. Existing multidimensional classification systems: (e.g., Nelson, 1955;Angell, 1951; Hagood et a]., 1941 ; Alexandersson, 1976; Duncan and Reiss, 1958;Hadden and Borgatta, 1965) are not based on methodologies which adcquatdy provide for both the selcction of appropriate city dimensions and the Categorization of cities on the basis of these dimensions joinfly considered ( Duncan et al 1960). For example, Hadden and Borgatta, in their widely ieeognized study of American cities which eBr,ctively used a factor analytic method for selecting appropriate city dimcnsions, employed a unidioicnsional centile categorization format rathyr than jointly considering the variables identified by their factor analysis of city dimensions (Hadden and Borgatta, 1965, Appendix 11).…”