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Crosscutting Social Circles - Testing a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations (Hardcover)
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Crosscutting Social Circles - Testing a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations (Hardcover)
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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 Influence social
structure exerts on intergroup relations. Blau and Schwartz show
how role relations are influenced by how people are distributed
among social positions. Examples are a community's racial
composition, division of labor, ethnic heterogeneity, income
Inequality, or the extent to which educational differences are
related to income differences. Blau and Schwartz test their theory
by considering its impact on such structural conditions as
intermarriage, an important form of intergroup relations.The
authors derive the main principles of previously formulated
theories of intergroup relations and present them in simpler and
clearer form. They empirically test the power of the theory by
analyzing its ability to predict how social structure affects
intermarriage in the largest American cities, where three-fifths of
the American population live. They selected cities because
population distribution of a small neighborhood might be affected
by casual associations among neighbors; it is much more
sociologically interesting if population distribution also affects
mate selection in a city of millions.Unlike most theories that
emphasize the implications of such cultural orientations as shared
values and common norms, this volume focuses on the significance of
various forms of inequality and heterogeneity. As one of the few
books that supplies a large-scale empirical test of implications of
a theory, Crosscutting Social Circles serves as a model. The new
introduction by Peter Blau reviews the origins and impact of the
book. It will be of immense value to sociologists, psychologists,
and group relations specialists.
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