NEW MEASURE OF MINORITY INTEGRATION AND ISOLATION

描述(申请人摘要)：本项目的长期目标 研究是为了了解冲突的根源和合作 各群体之间，特别是族裔和民族群体之间的冲突。具体的 拟议研究的目标是开发一种新的测量方法 日常社会行为中两个群体的融合/隔离。这 测量是一种测量的改编--暴露指数--由 社会学家和人口学家评估融合程度和 在人口普查区域实行种族隔离。新措施的实用性，其 可靠性，以及其有效性的初步指示将通过 将其应用于布林莫尔学院种族之间的互动 大力支持少数民族的全女性本科院校 多样性。将测量四个少数群体的融合/隔离 (非裔美国人、东亚人、南亚人、拉丁裔)与 大多数人(白人)，在四个社交室友中的每个人中)。分析 结果将包括对测试中涉及的统计问题的关注 不同种族间相互作用偏离随机混合的意义 边界。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): The long-term objective of this research is to understand the origins of conflict and cooperation between groups, especially between ethnic and national groups. The specific objective of the proposed research is to develop a new measure of integration/segregation of two groups in everyday social behavior. This measure is an adaptation of a measure--the exposure index--used by sociologists and demographers to assess the level of integration and segregation in census tracts. The practicality of the new measure, its reliability, and initial indication of its validity will be tested by applying it to interactions between ethnic groups at Bryn Mawr College, an all-female undergraduate institution with strong support for ethnic diversity. Integration/isolation will be measured for four minority groups (African-Americans, East Asians, South Asians, Latinas) in relation to the majority group (Whites), in each of the four social roommates). Analysis of results will include attention to statistical issues involved in testing the significance of departures of interaction from random mixing across ethnic boundaries.