Čaldarović, Ognjen.
(1975).
Some Indicators of Spacial Social Differentiation and Social Segregation of Zagreb Population in 1971.
Revija za sociologiju, 5(4).
pp. 58-66.
ISSN 0350-154X, 1846-7954
Abstract
Analysing processes of social segregation and differentiation in the area of
a town, dealing in that way with a problem present nowadays equally in bigger towns
all over the world and in Yugoslavia, we have taken as a starting point the hypothesis
that the socially better relationship is the one, in which the degree of »mixing« the
individual structures of inhabitants on basic of different systems of distribution
(e, g. on basic of the degree of schooling, degree of qualification) is being greater,
and vice versa. By means of analysis, it has been established that in the area of Zagreb,
social segregation and differentiation have been considerably present, with regard
to the structuring of inhabitants with different degrees of schooling and qualification.
Segregation is mostly resulting from an unequal presence of inhabitants
with higher degree of schooling and higher degree of qualification, in the area of the
town, meaning that the inhabitants of these categories have been aggregated, and
have inhabited just some parts of the town. In all other parts, the presence of inhabitants
of the mentioned category, has been just symbolic, and the presence of dichotomic
category (the least qualified and the least educated town-inhabitants) has
been considerably greater.
As has been affirmed, the established segregation can be established by observing
some other characteristics (e. g. standard of dwelling), and it may be connected
with the segregation established in the way earlier mentioned, what makes the situation
even more difficult.
The first step in attempting to solve the arising problems is to accept, consciously,
the reality of the existing segregation in the town area, and the second one is
valuable and conscious aiming of means and initiatives of a wider community, at
systematic and progressive equalization of the living conditions for all town-inhabitants.
We should start with those being in the badest and the most imperiled situation
— the inhabitants with the existentialistic necessities still not satisfied.
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