SOCI 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Capital, Physical Disorder, Research Question
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Streams of research: found 2 distinct/different stream of research until relatively recently developed in two separate literatures, neighborhood effect stream (dominated by sociologist) ), racial & ethnic composition (looking at racial groups who live in the neighborhood), residential instability (rate of turnover in. Measured iv and dv at the neighborhood: contextual models (yes) and multilevel models (yes): measure actual characteristic of neighborhood: association between neighborhood characteristics measured at the neighborhood level and characteristics. 5: have poorer health than those in more advantage neighborhoods. Regression analysis: looking at multi regression at the same time. 7: model 1 doesn"t tell us about contextual effect, but model 2 does on adult depression, doesn"t have any evidence on race, occurred by chance. Social cohesion items: how strongly respondents agree that, people in this neighborhood can be trusted, this is a close-knit neighborhood, people are here willing to help their neighbors.
