Doctoral Dissertation Research: Race in Place: Evaluating the Process of Residential Integration

PI和Co-PI：Robert罗宾逊和Evelyn佩里机构：印第安纳州大学标题：博士论文研究。Race in Place：评估居住整合的过程0825024摘要这个研究项目将研究如何生活在一个多样化的社区塑造居民的种族构成？本地社交网络定性和定量。 数据收集将涉及对30名关键信息提供者的深入访谈、包括广泛参与者观察在内的人种学田野调查，以及对威斯康星州密尔沃基一个稳定整合的社区--里弗韦斯特居民的120次社交网络访谈。 目前，还很少有实证研究的邻里水平之间的关系，居住一体化？种族和族裔群体在一个社区中的共存？社会融合？有意义和/或有用的跨种族联系。 因此，学者们不知道人口融合的增加是否会导致种族间互动和交流的融合的许多假定好处（例如资源共享，改善种族关系，增加获得支持社会流动的社会和文化资本的机会）。 本研究将解决以下研究问题：如何当地组织（商业，公民，宗教，社会服务）在一个住宅综合社区促进跨种族的社会融合和/或加强社会隔离？ 一个综合住宅区的居民如何？陷害？（赋予意义）他们的邻居？ 这些对社区的理解如何影响居民在社区内和对社区的行为？ 这项研究的目的是解释一个住宅综合社区的居民如何在当地环境中进行社会区分，并深入了解象征性边界如何影响社区居民的互动（例如，去哪里，如何互动，与谁互动或避免，如何处理问题）。 总的来说，研究的目的是通过将这些过程建立在多样化的居住环境中，来促进对不平等永久化和促进平等至关重要的社会和文化过程的社会学理解。 通过确定当地的做法和组织特点，限制或加强发展的种族间的关系，研究将建议政策，可以支持成功的融合社区和最大限度地提高融合的好处。

PI and Co-PI: Robert Robinson and Evelyn PerryInstitution: Indiana UniversityTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research. Race in Place: Evaluating the Process of Residential Integration0825024AbstractThis research project will examine how living in a diverse community shapes the racial makeup of residents? local social networks qualitatively and quantitatively. Data collection will involve in-depth interviews with thirty key informants, ethnographic fieldwork, including extensive participant observation, and 120 social networks interviews with residents in Riverwest, a stably-integrated neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Currently, there is little empirical investigation of the neighborhood-level relationship between residential integration?the co-existence of racial and ethnic groups in a community?and social integration?meaningful and/or useful cross-race ties. Thus, scholars do not know whether increasing demographic integration leads to the many assumed benefits of integration on interracial interaction and exchange (e.g. resource sharing, improved racial relations, increased access to social and cultural capital that support social mobility). This research will address the following research questions: How do local organizations (commercial, civic, religious, social service) in a residentially-integrated neighborhood facilitate cross-race social integration and/or reinforce social segregation? How do residents of a residentially-integrated neighborhood ?frame? (assign meaning to) their neighborhood? How do these understandings of the neighborhood affect how residents act in and toward their neighborhood? The goal of the research is to explain how residents of a residentially-integrated neighborhood make social distinctions within their local context and provide insight into how symbolic boundaries affect resident interactions of the neighborhood (e.g., where to go, how to interact, whom to interact with or avoid, how to deal with problems). Overall, the research aims to advance sociological understanding of social and cultural processes central to the perpetuation of inequality and to the promotion of equality by grounding these processes in a diverse residential context. By identifying local practices and organizational features that limit or enhance the development of interethnic ties, the research will suggest policies that could support the successful integration of neighborhoods and maximize the benefits of integration.