Shetler Anna E, Yabiku Scott T
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 512 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Spat Demogr. 2023 Apr;11(1):1-24. doi: 10.1007/s40980-023-00115-7. Epub 2023 Feb 21.
Connections between individuals' sociodemographic characteristics and their social attitudes have been widely studied, but there has been less research on how individuals' spatial patterns are related to attitudes. Studies that do incorporate space have focused on residential locations, neglecting spatial experience outside residential neighborhoods. To fill this gap, we test hypotheses relating multiple measures of activity space (AS) to social attitudes, using innovative spatial data from Nepal. First, we hypothesize that the gender and caste attitudes of a focal individual will be positively associated with the gender and caste attitudes of others in the focal individual's AS, including spaces beyond the residential neighborhood. Second, we hypothesize that privileged individuals (i.e., males and those of the Chhetri/Brahmin caste) with greater potential exposure to females and those of lower castes in their AS will have more egalitarian attitudes about gender and caste than those with less exposure in their AS. Linear regression models provide support for both hypotheses.
个体的社会人口特征与其社会态度之间的联系已得到广泛研究，但关于个体的空间模式如何与态度相关的研究较少。确实纳入空间因素的研究主要集中在居住地点，而忽略了居住社区之外的空间体验。为了填补这一空白，我们利用来自尼泊尔的创新空间数据，检验了将活动空间（AS）的多种测量指标与社会态度相关联的假设。首先，我们假设，焦点个体的性别和种姓态度将与该焦点个体活动空间内其他人的性别和种姓态度呈正相关，这些空间包括居住社区之外的区域。其次，我们假设，在活动空间中更有可能接触到女性和低种姓人群的特权个体（即男性以及切特里/婆罗门种姓的人），相比于在活动空间中接触机会较少的个体，会对性别和种姓持有更平等的态度。线性回归模型为这两个假设提供了支持。
