Social Impacts of Housing Relocation upon Urban, Low-Income Black Aged
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- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 12 (1) , 32-37
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/12.1_part_1.32
Abstract
A comparison of successful and nonsuccessful black aged applicants for a public, age-segregated housing complex was undertaken to determine characteristics favoring acceptability. Those whose objective characteristics (e.g., being male and married) more nearly approximated dominant social patterns and whose subjective characteristics (e.g., dependency) tended to conform to traditional stereotypes of blacks gained admission more often than those rejected. One significant social impact, in the microcosm, is that of the social consequences of such discriminatory selectivity among blacks only.Keywords
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