Residential Mobility 1 Flashcards
What does the social disorganization theory emphasize?
The importance of structural neighbourhood characteristics for creating safe and livable communities that meet residents’ collective needs. According to this theory, neighbourhood racial composition, neighborhood socioeconomic status and residential stability are key predictors of neighborhood problems (such as crime).
The _____ ____________ model does not deny the wealth effects proposed by the spatial assimilation model, but rather suggests that race is a significant moderator of the relationship between wealth and locational attainment. That is, even if a rising tide of wealth lifts all people to better residential outcomes, the _____ ____________ model predicts that wealth will still have different effects on locational attainment across groups.
place stratification (Woldoff 2008)
Where are locational returns to socioeconomic status for Blacks highest?
Western metropolitan areas and suburbs (Massey & Fischer 2000)
Using educational attainment and income as measures of socioeconomic status, Freeman (2008) finds what about blacks locational returns (living in white neighborhoods) between 1970-2000 using the PSID and Census?
His analysis fails to find a consistent, sustained increase in locational returns for Blacks over the 1970-2000 period. Class does matter. Higher-status Blacks generally live in higher-status neighborhoods and those with more Whites. But the importance of class has not increased since 1970
What is the white flight thesis?
The white flight thesis suggests that aversion to living in racially-integrated settings leads whites to vacate neighborhoods with large or growing minority populations, with such an exodus bolstering residential segregation by race.
