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Winship, Christopher – Social Forces, 1977
Shows that there are at least two different perspectives from which residential segregation can be examined. Segregation can be measured as it deviates from a situation of complete desegregation or in terms of a situation in which there is random segregation in the city. New criteria for indexes of residential segregation are developed. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Dropouts, Measurement Techniques, Racial Composition

Steinnes, Donald N. – Social Forces, 1977
Focuses on the changing of neighborhoods from white to Negro. Demonstrates statistically that distance from tract or Negro area alone cannot adequately explain or predict the racial turnover of neighborhoods over a ten-year period. Such an explanation requires considering economic and social measures of geographic mobility for white residents.…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Dropouts, Models, Multiple Regression Analysis