SOCI 366 Study Guide - Final Guide: Provigo, Housing Tenure, Spatial Dependence
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Lecture 1: neighborhoods, communities, and neighborhood effects part 1 (1/10/18) What are neighborhood effects: neighborhood characteristics & processes influence social phenomenon above and beyond individual traits of ppl living w/in the area, ex: concentrated poverty, racial residential segregation (spatial isolation), residential instability, racial ethnic heterogeneity. Lecture 2: neighborhoods, communities, and neighborhood effects part 2 (1/17/18) In-person walkthroughs: video recording, virtual walkthroughs, signs of disorder, social: more ambiguous, subjective, drug dealing, public intoxication, verbal harassment, etc, physical, trash in the street, graffiti, etc. Lecture 3: racial residential segregation: causes and trends (1/24/18) Measures of residential segregation: dissimilarity index: how evenly spread two groups are across neighborhoods in a study area (0-100, measures eveness, higher score = more segregation, 60+ = extreme segregation. Isolation index: % of same race in avg group member"s neighborhood (0-100: measures ghettoization (same-group, higher score = more segregation, 70+ = extreme isolation.
