Abstract
One of sociological human ecology’s classic hypotheses asserts the existence of a positive relationship between residence and social status. The more similar people to each other in social characteristics, the closer they live to one another. In this chapter, we test this hypothesis with 1982 data on the Han majority and each of the fifty-five minority nationalities of the People’s Republic of China. We expect that the more socially similar a minority group is to the Han majority, the less residentially segregated it will be from the Han majority.
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Poston, D.L., Micklin, M., Shu, J. (1998). Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation in China. In: Micklin, M., Poston, D.L. (eds) Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9841-8_15
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