The Stratification of "Quality of Life" in the Black Community of Atlanta, Georgia

Bederman, Sanford H.

doi:10.1353/sgo.1974.0002

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“…Smith (1973) has identified spatial patterns of social well-being at different scales in the United States. At the individual city level, social indicator studies have been conducted under such headings as social malaise, deprivation, and even quality of life (e.g., Dickinson et al, 1972;Bederman, 1974). This represents a radical departure from the traditional regional description that has dominated geography textbooks for decades.…”

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Social Geography

Eyles

Smith

1978

American Behavioral Scientist

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The past fifty years have seen the proliferation of adjectival geographies. During this time human geography became detached from the physical side of the subject, at least to many of its practitioners. Regional geography and settlement geography came to represent markedly different approaches to subject matter as well as distinct spatial scales of study, while historical geography developed as the examination of past geographies. Gradually, various subdividions of human geography also emerged: economic geography (and within it agricultural geography, industrial geography, transportation geography, and so on), political geography, cultural geography, population geography, and social geography. Each is concerned with particular classes of phenomena, seeking to elucidate the spatial aspects overlooked by the disciplines of economics, politics, anthropology, demography, and sociology. The content of the adjectival subfields of human geography is, for the most part, fairly obvious. For example, economic geography deals with economic phenomena such as factories, farms, and transport systems, political geography with political jurisdiction and affiliation, and social geography with social phenomena in space.But what are &dquo;social&dquo; phenomena? What objects does the social geographer investigate-analogous to the factories, farms, and railroads of the economic geographer, for example? Even the national boundaries, capitals, and internal administrative units of the political geographer, and the voting patterns of electoral geography, appear to have the firm if not physical identity denied to &dquo;social&dquo; phenomena. It is this uncertainty and intangibility of subject matter that distinguishes the development of social geography from that of other subfields. Developments elsewhere have been more methodological than substantive, more concerned with adopting numerical techniques and sophisticated theoretical frameworks than a search for solid subject matter.As seen conventionally today, social geography is a product of the post-1945 era, indeed largely of the past fifteen or so years. This is not to say that the notion of a &dquo;social&dquo; geography had not appeared in the literature at earlier dates. It is simply that there are important changes in emphasis as between the immediate postwar social geography and that of the 1960s and 1970s. We contend that

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Social Geography

Eyles

Smith

1978

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…QoL studies are conducted at various levels, ranging from the individual to the community to large administrative units such as states and countries. The analysis of a large administrative unit provides a good idea about objective conditions of life but very little or no information about subjective aspects of an individual within the large unit of analysis (Bederman, 1974; Knox & Scarth, 1977).…”

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Essence of culture and nature: Governance as the emerging correlates of quality‐of‐life experiences in the communities of Himachal, India

Chand

Thakur

2023

Int Social Sci J

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The aim of this work is to uncover factors influencing the quality of life in the study area. The idea is operationalized by collecting data at the household level on subjective and objective aspects of quality of life. For this study, data were collected from 18 sample villages using a stratified random sampling method. The villages were chosen to represent two distinct communities, namely the scheduled castes (SC) and the general population, spread across three altitudinal zones. In all, 436 households (about 20% of the total) were surveyed with respect to 10 domains of quality of life, namely environment and cleanliness, housing, education, health, personal well‐being, democratic and social participation, information and communication, employment, income and wealth and governance. To identify the key domains of quality of life, the principal components analysis (PCA) technique was applied. The findings support the idea that Asian predictors of satisfaction with life are similar to those of the Western world, but social and cultural backgrounds determine some culture‐oriented predictors. The PCA results show that governance is the key determinant of life satisfaction. This study reveals that due to higher levels of educational attainment, good income conditions, and greater participation in community affairs, the general community has reported higher quality of life satisfaction compared to the SC community population.

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“…He argued that the decentralization of jobs from urban to suburban areas was likely to exacerbate the already limited job access of inner city blacks. A number of research studies followed these charges; they investigated the relationship between residential segregation, access to transportation, and the availability and quality of jobs (see, e.g., Bederman, 1973;Falcocchio, 1972;Kain, 1968;Kain and Meyer, 1970;Kalachek and Goering, 1970;Ornati, 1969;Mooney, 1969;Masters, 1975;Myers and Phillips, 1979;Offner and Saks, 1971;and Wilson, 1979). The general conclusion drawn from these studies was that lack of transportation due to housing segregation is not a major factor in explaining either employment opportunities or incomes.…”

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Transportation, Race and Employment: In Pursuit of the Elusive Triad

Alexis¹,

DiTomaso

1983

Journal of Urban Affairs

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The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine the question of whether minorities have greater difficulties in finding and holding jobs because of the poor public transportation serving their neighborhoods and the relatively low ownership of automobiles. Earlier studies generally concluded that transportation was not a major reason for the high unemployment and low incomes characteristic of inner city minority areas. We review this literature and conclude that previous findings may understate the relationship. From survey data of workers in three companies and unemployed workers seeking jobs in the same labor market, we examine whether there are statistically significant differences by race or ethnicity associated with transportation need, availability and use. Our findings indicate that transportation does play an important role in differences in labor market outcomes for minorities and nonminorities. We also find that these outcomes are different for blacks and Latinos.

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The Stratification of "Quality of Life" in the Black Community of Atlanta, Georgia

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Essence of culture and nature: Governance as the emerging correlates of quality‐of‐life experiences in the communities of Himachal, India

Transportation, Race and Employment: In Pursuit of the Elusive Triad

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