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Thursday, September 11, 2008
(in Alcuin)
Common Landscape Of America, 1580 To 1845 Stilgoe, John R., 1949- New Haven : Yale University Press, c1982 (Alcuin)
This book presents a cross-cultural approach to the study of urban space. Essays written by major contributors in contemporary urban studies provide a range of case studies from Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe to address important questions about space and power, processes of change, aesthetics and attitudes toward space, and social divisions expressed through urban life. The essays fall into three interlocking sections: conceptual and linguistic approaches to urban space; visual and social examinations of world cities; and policy examinations of spatial analyses. Together with the jointly compiled bibliography, this collection of essays is designed to stimulate comparative debate and identify new areas for urban research. Essays contrast empty space in Barcelona and Savannah, explore the concept of healthy and unhealthy urban environments in the classical writings and in modern-day Vienna, and develop a model of space for Shanghai from the point of view of privacy. The subcultural ethos characterizing Tokyo and the castle as a symbol for the community in Japan are two more essay topics. The plaza in Spanish-American towns, the outdoor spaces in Italy (balcony, street, courtyard), and the school in Honduras are sites for socio-cultural analyses in three more essays. The last group of essays focus on discourses in urban planning, especially the responses of people to the growth, marketing, and decay of residential places. African-American neighborhoods and waterfront development provide examples for this section. These essays in their theoretical and geographical breadth make significant strides in defining the cultural meaning of urban space. They will be read with interest by city planners, ecologists, and other social scientists involved in finding human solutions to the metropolitan environment.
In assessing the estimates of forward survival in New York state (1850-1860) the results are pretty striking. Not a single county had a net gain in the 20s-30s cohort. Not even New York City (!!!!!) So I checked New York in Ancestry. NY natives born in 1825 (+/- 5 years) in the 1850 census: (551,660) NY natives born in 1825 (+/- 5 years) in the 1860 census: (489,011) NY natives born in 1835 (+/- 5 years) in the 1850 census: (687,345) NY natives born in 1835 (+/- 5 years) in the 1860 census: (677,798) NY natives born in 1845 (+/- 5 years) in the 1860 cernsus (823,539) NY residents born (anywhere) in 1825 (+/1 5 years) in the 1850 census: (722,143) NY residents born (anywhere) in 1825 (+/- 5 years) in the 1860 census: (657,091) NY residents born (anywhere) in 1835 (+/- 5 years) in the 1850 census: (755,693) NY residents born (anywhere) in 1835 (+/- 5 years) in the 1860 census: (844,565) Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Used Husco projections. 1830 and 1860 Intersect, using 1860 as "intersect guide." ARC-info >> Analysis Tools,>>Overlay>>Intersect Input Features (These are the maps that needs to be parsed and split) Shatters into smallest common fragments. Add new column ("subarea") for calculating new areas of the subportions. Then right-click and do "Calculate geometry." (we had some div/0 errors) Next step: dissolve. Dissolve operation dissolves things into a unity according to some specified category. Aggregates features based on a specified attribute We found it be going to help and using the open tool feature. It lives in data management >> Generalization >> dissolve. Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Texas Babies in Focus Counties: (Note that most of the Texas babies seem to be in the backwoods counties) (None in Adams) HINDS:
JASPER
In looking through the census migrators, here's a cool case from Claiborne Cty, Ms. of reverse migration:
She looks to be an orphan, perhaps. Monday, September 08, 2008
Barron and Strauss "Four Theories of Rape: A Macrosociological Analysis, by Larry Baron and Murray A. Straus Social Problems © 1987 University of California Press." hypothesize more rapes in societies with great gender inequality, social disorganization (including high mobility), cultural support for legitimized violence (warfare, corp. punishment, capital punishment) and exposure to pornography. Their index of gender inequality is borrowed from Sugarman and Strauss 1988. Their index of social disorganization includes geographic mobility, divorce, female-headed households, male-only households, and ratio of tourists to residents. They found relationships between social disorganization, gender inequality, pornography and rape, but not spillover/legitimate violence.
In The Vandello and Cohen article the following stick out: Collectivism defined as "a social pattern of closely linked individuals who define themselves as interdependent members of a collective (e.g. family, coworkers) whereas individualism as a cultural pattern stresses individual autonomy and independence of the self." 1) Indices: They use % living alone, and % elderly living alone as benchmarks of individualism vs. collectivism, as well as % grandchildren living with grandparents, % with no religious affiliation, and % self-imployed workers, among the indices that might work 2) pp 286. They found a modest correlation between collectivism (as they defined it) and population density per square mile (.22 p=.12) following up on Triandis's notion that higher density = more tightness/need for cohesion. Using percent of state population as urban they found a higher (.38 +/- 0.01) with their collectivism index. They qualify by saying that if urbanism means modernization and industrialization than individualism should result, but that if urbanism means density, collectivism is the survival strategy. 3) They contrast states with a history of large-scale group labor with collectivism versus herding and ranching, which are large in physical size but are small in staffing. They (p. 287) found, using the 1900 census, looking first at the ratio of self-run to tenant farms (r=-.59/.001), and the relative proportions of herders/ranchers versus farmers/planters/overseers (r=.31 p< .05). And strong correlations between high numbers of laborers to farm owners in a state. 4) They predicted that residential stability would correlate with collectivism but using % residing in native state and % living in same house as 5 years ago produced no correlation. 5) Using an index for creative professions (% artists, writers, painters, sculptors, printmakers) per capita, but little correlation. 6) Using 19th Amendment, ERA votes, and % women in legislatures, along with Barron and Strauss (1989) gender equality scale, they found a strong negative relationship (-0.45, p<.01) between collectivism and gender equality, with strongest correlations between 19th amdt vote and % of women legislators, less for gender equality index and income differential. And they got similar numbers for racial equality, esp income ratio, bachelor's degree ratio, and infant mortality ratio. U.S. regional differences in Individualism and CollectivismCultural and cross-cultural psychologists have given a lot of attention to the concepts of individualism and collectivism. Most of this research has compared U.S. samples (an individualistic culture) to East Asian samples (collectivist cultures). Although the United States is the prototypical individualistic culture, there is a good deal of regional variation within the United States on the I-C dimension. I have created an index that measures collectivist versus individualist tendencies at the state level (Vandello & Cohen, 1999). This index revealed regional patterns such that Southern states tended to be relatively collectivistic and states in the Mountain West and Great Plains tended to be relatively individualistic (click here to see a map of regional patterns of collectivism). These regional patterns of I-C were predicted by several historical and social antecedents. For example
lloyd benson [lloyd.benson@furman.edu] thought you'd find this article from Bnet useful. Sender's Message: Interesting Partners in Motion: Gender, Migration, and Reform in Antebellum Ohio and Kansas Frontiers http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3687/is_200605/ai_n17181759 Sunday, September 07, 2008
This image comes from a pamphlet advertising Nicholas Longworth’s wines, Longworth’s Wine House (1866) Abstract: Nineteenth century public memory records that famous fruit speculators Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845) and Nicholas Longworth (1783-1863) were enigmatic yet beneficent characters. Both fruit entrepreneurs altered the early Ohio landscape, brought new types of alcohol (one hard cider, the other refined wine) to the new West, and continued a national interest in fruit culture in the growing regional center. But beyond their place in frontier myth, Appleseed and Longworth are early models of a type of agricultural imperialism and capitalist accumulation previously thought to begin in California decades later. Indeed, and in antebellum Ohio, no less, “Johnny” and “Old Nick” used their fruits as expansionist tools in the soon-to-be-solidified Midwestern frontier zone of capitalist speculation. The imperial, racial, and class tensions of the orchard and vineyard are registered in many further cultural locations. Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine” (1887) illustrates that alcohol production, real estate investment, labor exploitation, and fruit growing were not-so-strange bedfellows in the 19th century. Commercial viticulture provided easy justification for turning public property into private property, legitimating neo-slavery techniques of sharecropping and cheap land sale, and divorcing local ways of knowing and senses of place from their long-standing basis in the land. Erica Hannickel is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Iowa. She is finishing her dissertation, An Imperial Vineland: Commercial Grape Growing in 19th Century America, on an American Association of University Women (AAUW) fellowship this year. A native of Rocklin, California, she received her BA in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego and MA in American Studies at CSU Fullerton. When not researching and writing, she is an avid organic gardener and yogi. Can the Theory of Motivation Explain Migration Decisions?Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics
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According to Abraham Maslow's motivational theory, human action is motivated by five groups of human needs. The model introduced in this paper exploits Maslow's theory to explain migration flows between regions. In the model, movement from one place to another influences migrant's utility through three various ways. First, through change in wage caused by different wage levels in each location. Second, through changes in utility connected with individuals safety needs and finally, through disarrangement of individual's social networks. When safety and social needs are added to the model, equilibria arise in which wage differential between regions persists. |
