- Title
- Conceptualising and measuring spatial segregation: the state of play
- Creator
- Watts, Martin J.
- Relation
- ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop. Proceedings of the ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop (Newcastle, N.S.W. 5th December 2007) p. 165-181
- Relation
- http://www.siss.edu.au/event/detail/11
- Publisher
- Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- Controversies in the conceptualisation and measurement of segregation have a long history in the literature. Studies by Duncan and Duncan (1955), James and Taeuber (1985), White (1986), and Watts (1998) contrasted the properties of indexes of segregation with a focus on aspatial measures. With the exception of Massey and Denton (1988), the development of spatial indexes had lacked a coherent conceptual basis, until the papers by Grannis (2002), Reardon and Firebaugh (2002b) and Reardon and O’Sullivan (2004). Reardon and O’Sullivan (2004) subject multi-group spatial segregation measures to criteria based on those applied to aspatial measures. In this paper we critically assess these recent developments in the measurement of spatial, multi-group segregation and their implications for spatial research in the social sciences. We argue that the criteria employed to assess these segregation measures need to be reviewed and more carefully aligned to the requirements of the associated empirical research.
- Subject
- spatial segregation; spatial segregation measures; spatial research; social sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935591
- Identifier
- uon:12095
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921166600
- Language
- eng
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