Thesis--Boston University. / Forced moving is a problem in social change. Reanalyzing
survey data from interviews with 102 Boston households who made a
forced move between 1968 and 1970, a theoretical model is developed
which explains the type and variety of these changes.
The household, the residents of one dwelling unit, is the unit
or system affected by a forced move. All social systems must solve
the four Parsonian functions to continue to exist. Households differ
in the adequacy of their solutions. In the model the independent
variables are the household's levels of functioning before the forced
move and the dependent variables are the housing and attitudinal changes
accompanying a forced move.
Two hypotheses specified the relationship between the changes
accompanying a forced move and influences on these changes. Hypothesis I
stated that households with positive functioning before the forced
move would report positive changes after the forced move.
In the model all four household functions do not contribute
equally to forced move outcomes. Assuming that rehousing after a ... [TRUNCATED]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/42039 |
| Date | January 1973 |
| Creators | Donahue, Mary Clarissa |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | This work is being made available in OpenBU by permission of its author, and is available for research purposes only. All rights are reserved to the author. |
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