Attitudes Toward Controversial Human Services among Minority Populations

小行星9308857 学者们进行了大量研究，分析个人和集体对有争议的设施选址的反应，这些设施被认为是必要的，但如果位于附近，则被视为不可取。 虽然许多研究都集中在“邻避”（不是在我的后院）对“LULUs”（当地不受欢迎的土地使用）的动态反应上，这些反应具有负面的物理环境外部性，但很少关注对人类服务设施（如无家可归者收容所和艾滋病感染者治疗设施）的反应分析。 对社区对这些设施的反应的初步研究表明，性别、收入和其他社会经济特征与个人和集体接受这些活动密切相关。 国家态度研究表明，区域间，区域内，和其他区位因素也可能影响社区接受人类服务设施。 这项研究规划补助金将使一个有能力和富有成效的年轻地理学家开始审查不同民族和种族少数群体之间的态度差异。 1980年代末首次进行的一项全国性调查中的问题将加以调整，以考虑到几个少数民族人口之间的文化和语言差异，并在加州的橙子县对一组少数民族群体进行了修改后的工具的试点测试。 这些预测试的结果将被用来完善国家调查工具，使他们得到更好的信息，社会人口的变化，对人类服务设施和其他LULUs的态度。 这一奖项将推动一个重要课题的有希望的研究路线，通过开发和测试旨在获取有关不同人群态度差异的关键信息的工具的关键阶段。 通过改进数据收集程序，这类研究将更好地促进对个人和社区对有争议的土地使用选址的态度的人文地理的一般理解。 该奖项也将提供一个宝贵的推动独立的研究生涯的高素质的妇女谁没有收到以前的联邦研究支持。 ***

9308857 TAKAHASHI Considerable research has been devoted by scholars to analysis of individual and collective reactions to the siting of controversial facilities, which are recognized as necessary but are seen as undesirable when situated nearby. Although many studies have focused on the dynamics of "NIMBY" (not in my back yard) responses to "LULUs" (locally undesirable land uses) that have negative physical environmental externalities, much less attention has been given to the analysis of reactions to human- service facilities like homeless shelters and facilities for treatment of people infected with AIDS. Initial studies of community reactions to such facilities disclosed that gender, income, and other socio-economic characteristics are highly correlated with individual and collective acceptance of these activities. National attitudinal studies indicated that interregional, intraregional, and other locational factors may also influence community acceptance of human-service facilities. This Research Planning Grant will enable a capable and productive young geographer to begin examination of attitudinal variations among different ethnic and racial minority groups. Questions in a national survey first administered in the late 1980s will be adapted to take into account cultural and linguistic differences among several minority populations, with pilot tests of modified instruments conducted on a set of minority groups in Orange County, California. Results from these pretests will be used to refine national survey instruments so that they elicit better information regarding socio-demographic variations in attitudes toward human-service facilities and other LULUs. This award will move a promising line of research on an important topic through a critical phase in the development and testing of instruments designed to elicit critical information about variations in attitudes among different groups of people. By improving data-collection procedures, this line of research will better contribute to general understandings about the human geography of individual and community attitudes regarding siting of contentious land uses. The award also will provide a valuable boost to the independent research career of a highly qualified woman who has not previous received federal research support. ***