The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950-1980

Schwirian, Kent P.; Hankins, F. Martin; Ventresca, Carol A.

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“…For example, because residence in a specific community generally represents an individual's or family's social status (Hunter, 1974; Schwirian, Hankins, and Ventresca, 1990), knowing minority group members in one's community may represent a unique, equal‐status form of contact. In spite of this, early research found mixed support for the positive effects of black‐white contact in communities (see Pettigrew, 1998).…”

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Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes^*

Dixon

Rosenbaum

2004

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. Many racial/ethnic policies in the United States-from desegregation to affirmative action policies-presume that contact improves racial/ethnic relations. Most research, however, tests related theories in isolation from one another and focuses on black-white contact. This article tests contact, cultural, and group threat theories to learn how contact in different interactive settings affects whites' stereotypes of blacks and Hispanics, now the largest minority group in the country. Method. We use multi-level modeling on 2000 General Social Survey data linked to Census 2000 metropolitan statistical area/county-level data. Results. Net of the mixed effects of regional culture and racial/ethnic composition, contact in certain interactive settings ameliorates anti-black and anti-Hispanic stereotypes. Conclusions. Cultural and group threat theories better explain anti-black stereotypes than anti-Hispanic stereotypes, but as contact theory suggests, stereotypes can be overcome with relatively superficial contact under the right conditions. Results provide qualified justification for the preservation of desegregation and affirmative action policies.Many recent American policies concerning race and ethnicity-from desegregation to affirmative action policies-are premised and defended on the belief that whites' contact with minorities ameliorates racial and ethnic tensions. Legal scholars note that the landmark Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision rested in part on the assumption that school segregation impedes cultural awareness that can be gained from black-white interaction in the classroom (Lockhart et al., 1996). In the policy realm of housing, one of the arguments made by members of Congress in favor of the

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confidence: 99%

Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes^*

Dixon

Rosenbaum

2004

Social Science Quarterly

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197

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“…The function of human capital accumulation can also help them obtain better employment information employment opportunities and improve the level of human capital [ 35 ], thereby enhancing rural migrants’ sense of identity and belonging to the city where they are located, increasing the social integration of rural migrants. On the other hand, under the conditions of marketization, residence, as a symbolic and status-based consumption activity, is gradually alienated into a screening mechanism for social status [ 36 , 37 ]. Rural migrants living in formal communities can increase their communication opportunities with urban residents.…”

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How does choice of residential community affect the social integration of rural migrants: insights from China

Zhao,

Wu,

Wang

et al. 2024

BMC Psychol

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The construction of public space is a new and important way to integrate rural migrants into urban society. Existing studies mainly discussed the factors affecting the social integration of rural migrants from the micro-individual and macro-system levels. Still, they seldom analyzed the differences between rural migrants’ residential communities and the roles these differences play in their social integration, especially from the perspective of residential space. Based on the data of the 2014 China Migrants Dynamic Monitoring Survey, this paper systematically examines the impact of residential community selection on the social integration of rural migrants and its possible effects using OLS, 2SLS, CMP, omitted variable test method, and KHB mediating effect model. It is found that the choice of residential community has a significant positive impact on the social integration of rural migrants, and the social integration of rural migrants living in formal communities has increased by 2.44%-3.20%. To overcome the potential endogeneity problems and selection bias of the empirical model, the study further adopted an instrumental variable estimation approach, combined with the omitted variable method for robustness check; the results still revealed the positive effect of living in formal communities on the social integration of rural migrants. The heterogeneous results showed that living in formal communities has a greater effect on the social integration of women and older-generation rural migrants. The farther the migration range and the longer the residence time of rural migrants, the greater the effect of living in the formal community on their social integration. Further mechanism testing revealed that living in formal communities not only directly enhances the social integration of rural migrants but also indirectly improves their social integration through public resource allocation, human capital accumulation, social status screening, and social network expansion. The indirect effect of capital accumulation is even greater. Therefore, to accelerate the full integration of rural migrants into urban society and achieve real urbanization and citizenship, the study proposes that the government should scientifically plan the layout of rural migrants’ living space and the construction of supporting facilities.

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“…La principal debilidad de estos estudios es, sin embargo, su fundamentación teórica que ignora la función de la renta del suelo. En general, se asume que la conversión de desigualdad socioeconómica en desigualdades espaciales se reduce simplemente a que los ricos están dispuestos a pagar más (willing to pay, outbid) que los pobres en la subasta por las mejores localizaciones (Jargowsky, 1996;Schwirian, Hankins y Ventresca, 1990;Watson, 2009).…”

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Desigualdad socioeconómica y segregación residencial en Argentina. Niveles y tendencias recientes (1991-2001-2010)

Rodríguez

2020

CVU

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Este trabajo se propone conocer los niveles y tendencias de la segregación residencial socioeconómica (SRS) en Argentina, a lo largo de dos décadas, comprendidas entre 1991-2001 (década neoliberal) y 2001-2010 (década redistributiva), que aproximadamente coinciden con dos períodos de signo político y económico distintos. Se propone como hipótesis que existe una correlación entre la desigualdad socioeconómica y la SRS: esta aumenta en períodos de concentración de la riqueza y disminuye en período de signo contrario. El estudio abarca 783 ciudades argentinas de todos los tamaños y mide el nivel de SRS en cada una de ellas, así como la distribución del ingreso en un conjunto más reducido de 34 ciudades. Se aplica una metodología innovadora para controlar el efecto distorsivo del PUEM sobre los índices de segregación. Los resultados obtenidos muestran evidencias parcialmente consistentes con la hipótesis. Por un lado, existe una correlación positiva y significativa entre la SRS y la desigualdad socioeconómica. Por otro lado, la SRS disminuyó durante la década redistributiva, aunque también se redujo levemente en la década neoliberal previa.

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The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950-1980

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Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes^*

Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes^*

How does choice of residential community affect the social integration of rural migrants: insights from China

Desigualdad socioeconómica y segregación residencial en Argentina. Niveles y tendencias recientes (1991-2001-2010)

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Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes*

Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes*

How does choice of residential community affect the social integration of rural migrants: insights from China

Desigualdad socioeconómica y segregación residencial en Argentina. Niveles y tendencias recientes (1991-2001-2010)

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Nice to Know You? Testing Contact, Cultural, and Group Threat Theories of Anti‐Black and Anti‐Hispanic Stereotypes^*

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