Informal Participation Research Articles

Empirical Considerations on the Problem of Social Integration*

The present study analyzes differences in perception of neighborhood and residential mobility as related to formal and informal participation. Results show that perceived similarity is related to neighborhood participation, while residential mobility is related to formal group membership. These relationships, with very few exceptions, seem to persist even in the presence of other control variables like age, education and religion. A significant proportion of the urban community participates frequently with neighbors and belongs to church and other formal groups. These activities are generally high in the suburb and low in the inner city regardless of differences in perception of neighborhood and residential mobility except for membership in organizational groups: the high membership in the suburb occurs under conditions of perceived similarity. The theoretical implications suggest a re‐evaluation of the mode of life in the modern urban community and emphasize the significance of taking the perceptual as well as the behavioral context into account in sociological analysis.

Informal Participation in a Metropolitan Community

(1967). Informal Participation in a Metropolitan Community. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 85-102.

Antisocial Sentiment and Criminality

Social Isolation. This index was constructed from combined measures of formal organizational membership and annual attendance plus a measure of informal social participation with neighbors, co-workers outside of work, relatives other than those living with the respondent, and other friends. This index was simply dichotomized as follows: the isolate is an individual who belongs to no formal organizations or, if he belongs, who attends meetings only once a month or less, and who gets together with friends, neighbors, relatives, or co-workers once or twice a month or less. The participant is one who belongs to at least one formal organization and who attends meetings several times a month or more, or who gets together informally with friends, neighbors, relatives, or co-workers several times a month or more, or both.

Urban Neighborhoods and Informal Social Relations

Interviews with men in four neighborhoods of different social type in San Francisco reveal that informal relationships within the neighborhood are fairly frequent and likely to be personal, close, and intimate. The frequency and the nature of informal participation vary with the economic and family characterics of the neighborhoods. Compared to neighbors and co-workers, kin are generally more important in each neighborhood by all the measures of informal participation used. Formal group participation results in friendship for the majority.

Class and Ethnic Correlates of Casual Neighboring

configuration of attitudes, interests, and values which favors a high rate of both informal interaction and formal participation. This social psychological aspect of the suburban population appears to be an important factor in developing patterns of social relationships in suburbs which differ from those found in the equally homogeneous, middleclass populations of some urban subareas. However, regardless of variations in age, income, family status, or attitudes, the structuring of social relationships in suburbs is always influenced by the definitive characteristics-the size and density of population, the accessibility of the large city, and the daily commuting pattern. Thus it can be anticipated that when the suburban pattern of social relationships has been more fully documented it will be found to be an outgrowth of the definitive ecological characteristics on one hand and such derivative characteristics as homogeneity and a particular socio-psychological milieu on the other. At that time, also, it should be possible to weigh the influences of the respective factors more precisely than has been done to date.

Cornell Conferences on Therapy

This represents the 10th year in which the Conferences have been conducted. Selected ones have been published in the New York State Journal of Medicine and also in the American Journal of Medicine. Distribution of reprints has been discontinued since the initiation of publication of the Conferences in book form. This 3rd series preserves the style of previous volumes. It is a presentation by experts in the field, followed by free and informal participation of the audience at Cornell University and New York Hospital. In all, 15 conferences have been selected on the dose of a drug; an optimal routine for the management for congestive failure; uses of streptomycin and of protein hydrolysates; management of peptic ulcer with protein hydrolysates; treatment of pneumonia and of barbitrate poisoning; therapeutic uses of BAL; treatment of hepatic insufficiencies; management of pain due to muscle spasm; treatment of thrombophlebitis and of alcoholism; rational use of cathartic agents, and treatment of infection of the genitourinary tract.

Human Relations in the Restaurant Industry.William Foote Whyte

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsHuman Relations in the Restaurant Industry. William Foote Whyte Harold L. SheppardHarold L. Sheppard Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 54, Number 5Mar., 1949 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/220402 Views: 3Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Aida K. Tomeh Informal Participation in a Metropolitan Community, The Sociological Quarterly 8, no.11 (Dec 2016): 85–102.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1967.tb02276.xAida K. Tomeh Informal Participation in a Metropolitan Community*, The Sociological Quarterly 8, no.11 (Dec 1966): 85–102.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1966.tb02089.x

Informal Social Participation in the Planned Rural Communities

Informal Social Participation in the Planned Rural Communities