Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation of the Minority Nationalities from the Han Majority in the People's Republic of China |
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| Authors: | Dudley L Poston Jr Michael Micklin |
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| Institution: | Is professor and head of the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He teaches in the areas of demography, human ecology, and gender studies. His research focuses on population issues in East Asia, especially China, Taiwan, and Korea. He is co-author (with David Yaukey) of The Population of Modern China;, published by Plenum Press in 1992. Is visiting professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, People's Republic of China. His research is concentrated on developing areas, primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. He is co-author (with Alfredo Mendez-Dominguez) of a forthcoming monograph on population change and deforestation in Guatemala. |
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| Abstract: | One of sociological human ecology's classic hypotheses posits the existence of a positive relationship between social status and residence. The more similar the social characteristics of two populations, the greater their degree of residential propinquity. This study examines that hypothesis with data for the Han majority and each of the fifty-five minority nationalities enumerated in the 1982 Census of the People's Republic of China. We find support for the hypothesis when we use a segregation measure that reflects the degree of unevenness of the residential distribution of a minority population from the Han. The paper also addresses the implications of these findings for the social and economic development of the Chinese minorities. |
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