Abstract In this article the authors ask what it would mean to think sociologically about the window as a specific material and symbolic object. Drawing on qualitative analysis of a series of comparative interviews with residents in three different streets in a diverse local area of Glasgow, they explore what the use and experience of windows tells us about their
» Read more2018 coverage: Peace walls and other social frontiers can breed crime and conflict in cities Professor Gwilym Pryce discusses ‘social frontiers’ and their impact on communities for The Conversation, 5th June 2018 2017 coverage: Levels of religious integration sway house buyers, study finds- Herald Scotland 26 Mar 2017 Research by Professor Gwilym Pryce, Dr Nema Dean and Dr Dan Olner
» Read moreThis map is based on a grouping of tenure (owner-occupation, private rent, council/social rent) from the 2011 Scottish Census. Each datazone gets assigned to one of the resulting clusters and is coloured accordingly.
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In the vast literature on segregation measurement, only a handful of papers attempt to address the issue of inference – computing confidence intervals for example for the index of dissimilarity and related measures. Quantifying uncertainty is important if we are to address basic questions about whether there have been genuine changes in segregation over time or between cities. For example,
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One of the main approaches in the literature for estimating the economic value of the reduction in crime or the improvement in school performance is to use differences in house price changes to compute the willingness to pay for these improvements. However, such improvements are likely to change the social mix of the affected neighbourhoods. Failure to take into account
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Sorting processes and the resulting selection effects have been recognised as one of the main factors that undermine the reliability of existing UK estimates of the economic value of various social and environmental (dis)amenities and also of neighbourhood effects. Hitherto, lack of data has meant that it has not been possible to resolve the selection bias arising from omitted sorting
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This aim of this programme of research was to advance the measurement (Massey & Denton 1988; Galster & Cutsinger 2007) of residential segregation/inequality in Scotland, estimate its causes (Schelling 1971; Kuminoff & Timmins 2010) and consequences (Galster 2007), and provide comparisons (where possible) with England, Wales and USA. The UK has some of the best data resources in the world
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