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Community in transition : mobility, integration, and conflict
- Title
- Community in transition : mobility, integration, and conflict / Hanna Ayalon, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, and Abraham Yogev.
- Author
- Ayalon, Hanna.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
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- Description
- xii, 195 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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.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.
- Series Statement
- Contributions in sociology, 0084-9278 ; no. 104
- Uniform Title
- Contributions in sociology ; no. 104.
- Subject
- New towns > Israel > Case studies
- Social planning > Israel > Case studies
- City planning > Israel > Case studies
- Social integration > Israel > Case studies
- City planning
- New towns
- Social integration
- Social planning
- Neue Stadt
- Sozialplanung
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Opbouwwerk
- Sociale verandering
- Sociale integratie
- Sociale planning
- Stadsplanning
- New Towns
- New towns > Social aspects > Israel
- Sociology, Urban > Israel
- Social integration > Israel
- Social mobility > Israel
- Israel
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Mobile Community: Status Enhancement, Social Integration, and Neighborhood Differentiation -- 2. The Setting and the Study Design -- 3. The Mobiltowners: New and Veteran Neighborhood Groups -- 4. Lifestyle and Friendship Networks -- 5. How Groups View Each Other -- 6. The Political Dimension: Elitism Versus Pluralism in the Community -- 7. School Integration and the Young Generation -- 8. Four Years Later -- 9. The Outcomes of Status Enhancement: Implications of the "Settle with Us" Project -- Appendix: Methodology.
- ISBN
- 031328699X
- 9780313286995
- LCCN
- 92020063
- OCLC
- ocm26012445
- 26012445
- SCSB-8936458
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library