The Conditions Underlying Race Riots as Portrayed by Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis: A Reanalysis of Lieberson and Silverman's Data

Bloombaum, Milton

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“…In particular, they found that population growth, the proportion of Negro-white unemployment rate, Negro income, and the proportion of Negroes living in substandard housing were substantially the same in &dquo;matched&dquo; cities in which racial violence did not occur as in cities where such violence did occur. Continued examination of riot behavior in the same period has confirmed the findings of Lieberson and Silverman (Bloombaum, 1968).…”

Section: An Overview Of Urban Riots and The Characteristics Of Riot Csupporting

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Riot and Nonriot Cities

McElroy

Singell²

1973

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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Riot and Nonriot Cities

McElroy

Singell²

1973

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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“…During the last ten years or so, several social scientists and historians (Bloombaum, 1968;Danzger, 1968;Kerner, 1968;Lewis, 1975;Lieberson and Silverman, 1965;Levy, 1969;Rud6, 1964;Snyder and Tilly, 1972;Spilerman, 1970;Wanderer, 1969) have circumvented the problem of lack of riot materials by turning to what Webb et al (1965) call the "running record," a vast and largely untapped data pool consisting of the daily newspaper and other continuous archival deposits. The present data were obtained from the Toronto Globe and Mail-Canada's most "national" newspaper.…”

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Precipitants of Crowd Violence*

Smith

1978

Sociological Inquiry

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Tentative verification was obtained for the hypothesis that violence precipitates collective violence. Sixty-eight reports of sport-related "hostile outburts" were taken from the Toronto Globe And Mail, for the years 1963-1973. In three quarters of these incidents there were accounts of extraordinary violence-usually player assaults on opposing players-prior to the collective episodes. This finding is understandable social psychologically when the "precipitating" properties of violence are seen in the context of "hostile belief" and emotional arousal often present in spectator-oriented sports.The study of crowds, perhaps more than any other area of sociology, has been hampered from the beginuing by a shortage of reliable empirical data. Sound research on crowd process particularly is in short supply. Crowds, after all, are relatively unpredictable and fleeting phenomena, making it difficult for trained observers to be on hand; and the accounts of participants and spectators, trained or untrained, are prone to distortion. Laboratory experiments suffer from artificiality; field experiments present severe practical and ethical problems. Furthermore, as Berk (1972a: 113-114) notes. crowd process per se leaves few traces, unlike the conditions antecedent and subsequent to it. Researchers are forced to extrapolate forward from data antecedent to process, backward from its visible results, and to speculate on the intervening dynamics. Not surprisingly, some analyses arc more like projective tests than examinations of collective behavior (see also Berk and Aldrich, 1972; Marx and Wood, 1975: 371-372).The present research helps rectify this situation by assembling data on one component of crowd process: the precipitating factor. Materials were obtained from a Toronto newspaper's accounts, over ten years, of crowd violence at sport events. These data have serious weaknesses, but in the absence of available alternatives do at least improve upon the prevalent "projective-test" flavor of work on the subject.

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“…verman data confirmed that no single The exclusion of blacks from many con-factor discriminated clearly between riot struction jobs is frequently cited as a and control cities, but did reveal that of particularly glaring form of blocked op-the nine variables used, employment portunity. Because such jobs are highly conditions discriminated better than any visible, reputed to be lucrative, and other single factor [4]. Reporting these .…”

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The Geography of Riots and Civil Disorders in the 1960s

Adams¹

1972

Economic Geography

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The Conditions Underlying Race Riots as Portrayed by Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis: A Reanalysis of Lieberson and Silverman's Data

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The Geography of Riots and Civil Disorders in the 1960s

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