Williams Seth A, Hipp John R
Department of Criminology, Law and Society, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, United States.
Department of Criminology, Law and Society, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2019 Jan;77:68-78. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.10.008. Epub 2018 Oct 17.
Though Ray Oldenburg's (1989) notion of "third places", or places conducive to sociality outside of the realms of home and work, has received both scholarly and popular attention over the past several decades, many of the author's central claims remain empirically untested. The present study considers the association between neighborhood third places, cohesion and neighbor interaction. Drawing on various literatures regarding interaction in public space and neighborhood use-value, we consider how the role of third places might vary according to neighborhood socioeconomic context. Using data from Wave I of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study (LAFANS) and data on third places from the point-based business data of ReferenceUSA, we test the effect of third places on cohesion and neighbor interaction across neighborhood poverty strata. We find support for the hypothesis that third places are associated with greater cohesion and neighbor interaction, and that neighbor interaction mediates the relationship between third places and cohesion in poor neighborhoods.
尽管雷·奥尔登堡（1989年）提出的“第三空间”概念，即有利于家庭和工作领域之外社交活动的场所，在过去几十年里受到了学术界和大众的关注，但作者的许多核心主张在实证方面仍未得到检验。本研究考察了邻里第三空间、凝聚力与邻里互动之间的关联。借鉴有关公共空间互动和邻里使用价值的各种文献，我们探讨了第三空间的作用如何因邻里社会经济背景而异。利用洛杉矶家庭与邻里研究（LAFANS）第一波的数据以及来自ReferenceUSA基于点数的商业数据中的第三空间数据，我们检验了第三空间对不同邻里贫困阶层的凝聚力和邻里互动的影响。我们发现，有证据支持以下假设：第三空间与更强的凝聚力和邻里互动相关联，并且邻里互动在贫困社区中介导了第三空间与凝聚力之间的关系。
