SPATIAL SEGREGATION AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE MINORITY NATIONALITIES FROM THE HAN MAJORITY IN THE PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA

abstract

• One of sociological human ecology's classic hypotheses posits the existence of a positive relationship between social status and residence. The more similar the social characteristics of two populations, the greater their degree of residential propinquity. This study examines that hypothesis with data for the Han majority and each of the fiftyfive minority nationalities enumerated in the 1982 Census of the People's Republic of China. We find support for the hypothesis when we use a segregation measure that reflects the degree of unevenness of the residential distribution of a minority population from the Han. The paper also addresses the implications of these findings for the social and economic development of the Chinese minorities.

authors

• Poston, Dudley

published proceedings

• SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY

author list (cited authors)

• POSTON, D. L., & MICKLIN, M.

citation count

• 18

complete list of authors

• POSTON, DL||MICKLIN, M

publication date

• April 1993

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

keywords

• 44 Human Society
• 4410 Sociology
• Basic Behavioral And Social Science
• Behavioral And Social Science

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00301.x

start page

• 150

end page

• 165

volume

• 63

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.1993.tb00301.x