Community Types and Social Indicator Rates.  

Oleh:

Young, Frank W. ; Lyson, Thomas A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cross-Cultural Research vol. 40 no. 4 (Nov. 2006), page 405.
Topik: social indicators; morphology; village types; factor analysis; New York State
Fulltext: 405.pdf (114.14KB)

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To explore and test the Durkheimian proposition that social morphology determines communities’ social indicator levels, this research introduces an improved method for identifying community types and relates them to disability rates and problematic pregnancies. A factor analysis of Mapquest data for 283 villages in western New York State produced four factors: services, satellite villages, regional centers, and college centers. The factor scores were then used in regression models of two disability criteria—work limitation and work curtailment—along with teenage pregnancies. The disability criteria coefficients were significantly negative for satellite and college villages and for service and regional villages that are near cities. A plausible explanation for these correlations is that the cost of living deters residence by disabled people. In the hinterland, people with disabilities tend to concentrate in regional centers with a large hospital and a veterans organization. Positive associations were found in the African American and evangelical subcommunities of hinterland villages for teen pregnancies. This research using the cross-cultural method illustrates the untapped potential of what is often considered an esoteric anthropological method.

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