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Document Description
Title
Urban
ecological
differentiation
and
patterns
of
social
visiting
:
a
case
study
of
St.
John's
,
Newfoundland
Author
Shrimpton
,
Mark
Description
Thesis
(M.A.)
--
Memorial
University
of
Newfoundland
,
1975.
Geography
Date
1975
Pagination
ix, 161 leaves : ill.
Subject
Sociology
,
Urban;
Human
ecology;
Social
psychology;
St.
John's
(N.L.)--Social
conditions
Degree
M.A.
Degree Grantor
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Geography
Discipline
Geography
Language
Eng
Spatial Coverage
Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's
Notes
Bibliography
:
leaves
154-161
Abstract
Studies
of
urban
social
differentiation
have
primarily
adopted
either
a
"structuralist"
,
macro-approach
or a
"behaviouralist"
micro-approach
to the
delineation
of
sub-areas.
In the
former
the
objective
is
the
spatial
disaggregation
of the
city
on the
basis
of the
characteristics
of the
entire
population
,
while
the
behaviouralist
approach
attempts
an
identification
of
sub-areas
on the
basis
of
common
patterns
of
individual
behaviour
,
attitudes
and/or
perceptions.
This
thesis
consists
of a
structuralist
analysis
of the
social
differentiation
of the
city
of
St.
John's
,
Newfoundland
, and an
examination
of the
relationship
between
the
dimensions
of the
differentiation
so
derived
and
one
aspect
of
social
behaviour
,
informal
social
visiting.
As
such
it
is
a
partial
test
of the
assumption
that
structurally
defined
spatial
units
are also
behavioural
units
, and of the
degree
to
which
locale
is
of
importance
to the
social
visiting
behaviour
of the
populations
of
different
sub-areas.
-
Description
of the
social
differentiation
of
St.
John's
is
accomplished
by an
R-mode
principal
components
analysis
of
thirty-nine
census
variables
at the
enumeration
area
scale.
Despite
this
use
of
small
area
data
the
three
classical
dimensions
of
differentiation
(socio-economic
status
,
family
status
and
segregation)
emerge
, with
segregation
based
on
religious
differentiation.
Other
components
extracted
reflect
participation
in the
labour
force
and
housing.
-
Data
on
social
visiting
behaviour
were
gathered
by a
questionnaire
survey
of a
sample
of
residents
of
twelve
selected
enumeration
areas.
Analysis
of the
patterns
of
social
visiting
reveals
geographic
distance
to be a
strong
constraint
on
informal
social
interaction
,
even
when
the
effects
of
variations
in the
distributions
of
potential
contacts
and the
non-independence
of
geographic
and
social
distance
measures
are
minimized.
Evaluation
of the
effects
of
social
(factorial)
distance
is
concentrated
on the
three
main
components
extracted.
Socio-economic
and
religious
status
differentiation
are
found
to be
significant
constraints
on
social
visiting.
However
, in the
case
of
both
geographic
and
social
distance
,
it
is
found
that there are
systematic
differences
between
their
effects
on the
visiting
behaviour
of
populations
according
to their
social
(factorial)
characteristics.
Type
Text
Resource Type
Electronic
thesis
or
dissertation
Format
Image/jpeg;
Application/pdf
Source
Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier
76006259
Rights
The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection
Electronic
Theses
and
Dissertations
Scanning Status
Completed
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(59.47
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