RB Howarth, K Kennedy - Ecological Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
In advanced industrial societies, rising levels of inequality have contributed strongly to the observed gap that has emerged between per capita income and the Index of Sustainable …
DS Massey, NA Denton - Social forces, 1988 - academic.oup.com
This paper conceives of residential segregation as a multidimensional phenomenon varying along five distinct axes of measurement: evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization …
What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …
In this paper we derive and evaluate measures of multigroup segregation. After describing four ways to conceptualize the measurement of multigroup segregation—as the …
The measurement of residential segregation patterns and trends has been limited by a reliance on segregation measures that do not appropriately take into account the spatial …
Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other, and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan areas In the United States. The focus is on the …
Diversity and segregation are characteristics of a population most individuals can sense intuitively. Diversity is variety. For instance, the ethnic diversity of a large city is seen in the …
DR James, KE Taeuber - Sociological methodology, 1985 - JSTOR
1976; Cortese, Falk, and Cohen, 1976; Winship, 1977; Lieberson, 1981; Lieberson and Carter, 1982; and commentary following many of these.) Despite the interest that has …
The hypothesis of cumulative advantage is widely accepted in the sociology of science, but empirical tests have been few and equivocal. One approach, originated by Allison and …