Community in Transition: Mobility, Integration, and Conflict - Couverture rigide

Ayalon, Hanna; Ben-Rafael, Eliezer; Yogev, Abraham

 
9780313286995: Community in Transition: Mobility, Integration, and Conflict
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 031328699X ISBN 13 : 9780313286995
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1993

Synopsis

How can depressed communities be upgraded? One approach is to import settlers with higher incomes. In a unique experiment in Israel, this approach was utilized, and the results are the focus of the Ayalon, Ben-Rafael, and Yogev study.

The three authors examine the costs and benefits of an experiment in community change in Mobiltown. The experiment, which brought higher status people to a poor community, is evaluated on the basis of surveys, indepth interviews, and observations. The research shows that the experiment has mainly resulted in the status enhancement of the community as a whole. Yet, expectations for social integration between the new and veteran residents were not fulfilled. Many of the cultural, economic, commercial, and social developments were based on some form of implicit segregation. The dynamics of unbalanced outcomes are demonstrated in the areas of intergroup attitudes, the formation of social networks, and in the political and educational arenas. The Mobiltown experiment demonstrates how the cost of newly introduced social gaps are countered by the benefits of the status enhancement of the entire community. An important study for sociologists, urban planners, and those concerned with social change in Israel.

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À propos de l'auteur

HANNA AYALON is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University.

ELIEZER BEN-RAFAEL is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University.

ABRAHAM YOGEV is Associate Professor at the School of Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
031328699X
ISBN 13 
9780313286995
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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