Ethnic diversity, segregation and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London
Ethnic diversity, segregation and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London
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DOI：
10.1080/01419870.2013.831932
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Jackson, Jonathan
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作者：
Sturgis, Patrick;Brunton-Smith, Ian;Jackson, Jonathan
种族多样性是否以及如何影响社区的社会凝聚力的问题已成为学术和政治辩论中日益突出和有争议的话题。在本文中，我们关注一个城市：伦敦。作为地球上种族最多元化的大都市，伦敦是一个特别适合研究种族异质性对亲社会态度影响的理论的试验台。我们发现，一旦考虑到经济匮乏的程度，伦敦的社区种族多样性与社区居民感知的社会凝聚力呈正相关。另一方面，社区内的种族隔离与较低的社会凝聚力水平有关。这两种影响都受到居民个体年龄的强烈调节：多样性对年轻人的社会凝聚力有积极影响，但这种影响在年龄较大的群体中消失；种族隔离则存在相反的模式。
The question of whether and how ethnic diversity affects the social cohesion of communities has become an increasingly prominent and contested topic of academic and political debate. In this paper we focus on a single city: London. As possibly the most ethnically diverse conurbation on the planet, London serves as a particularly suitable test-bed for theories about the effects of ethnic heterogeneity on prosocial attitudes. We find neighbourhood ethnic diversity in London to be positively related to the perceived social cohesion of neighbourhood residents, once the level of economic deprivation is accounted for. Ethnic segregation within neighbourhoods, on the other hand, is associated with lower levels of perceived social cohesion. Both effects are strongly moderated by the age of individual residents: diversity has a positive effect on social cohesion for young people but this effect dissipates in older age groups; the reverse pattern is found for ethnic segregation.