Marsh Kris, Iceland John
Associate Professor, University of Maryland.
Professor of Sociology and Demography, Department Head, Department of Sociology and Criminology, The Pennsylvania State University.
City Community. 2010 Sep;9(3):299-319. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01338.x.
While many studies have examined the intersection of race and class with residential segregation and residential preferences, very little is known about the role played by household composition in shaping residential patterns. This paper focuses on the residential patterns of a particular kind of household: those consisting of persons single and living alone (SALA). We compare the residential segregation of black SALA households-an important subset of non-family households and a rapidly growing segment of the population-from white SALA households and both white and black married-couple households. We examine how group and metropolitan characteristics influence segregation levels for these household types. Using data from the 2000 census, we find that black SALA households are less segregated from white SALA households than from white married-couple households. Multivariate analyses show that smaller income differences across SALA households account for these segregation patterns, indicating the importance of economic resources in influencing residential patterns. Nevertheless, race continues to play an important role, as black SALA household segregation from both kinds of white households is high in absolute terms and relative to their segregation from black married-couple households.
尽管许多研究探讨了种族和阶层与居住隔离及居住偏好的交叉关系，但对于家庭构成在塑造居住模式中所起的作用却知之甚少。本文聚焦于一种特殊类型家庭的居住模式：即单身独居者（SALA）组成的家庭。我们将黑人单身独居家庭（非家庭户的一个重要子集且人口数量快速增长）与白人单身独居家庭以及白人、黑人已婚夫妇家庭的居住隔离情况进行比较。我们研究群体特征和大都市特征如何影响这些家庭类型的隔离程度。利用2000年人口普查数据，我们发现黑人单身独居家庭与白人单身独居家庭的隔离程度低于与白人已婚夫妇家庭的隔离程度。多变量分析表明，单身独居家庭之间较小的收入差异导致了这些隔离模式，这表明经济资源在影响居住模式方面的重要性。然而，种族仍然起着重要作用，因为从绝对值以及相对于与黑人已婚夫妇家庭的隔离程度来看，黑人单身独居家庭与这两类白人家庭的隔离程度都很高。
