Systems, change, and outcomes: the case of households forced to move

Date
1973
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Donahue, Mary Clarissa
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OA Version
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Abstract
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]
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Thesis--Boston University.
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