AN APPROACH OF SPATIAL EVALUATION OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN CHINESE CITY

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6) : 15-23.

WANG Yang¹, ZHANG Hong-ou¹, JIN Li-xia¹, YE Yu-yao¹, WANG Chang-jian¹, HUANG Geng-zhi¹, LI Qiu-ying²

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The pattern of social stratification in city is a core issue in the field of sociology and urban geography. However, rarely research catches the issue of spatial evaluation of social stratification in Chinese city. Therefore, we explore a new approach to evaluate spatial pattern of social stratification of Chinese city, and set forth a comprehensive framework including 5 socio-economic grades, 8 social classes, and 3 analysis aspects. The process of the approach is as follows:1) the social class are divided into 8 types of occupations including administrators of state and society, owners of enterprises, professionals, office clerks, individuallyowned business and commercial service persons, industrial workers, agricultural laborers, and unemployed persons; 2) 8 social class are classified into 5 socio-economic grades based on organizational resources, economic resources, and cultural resources occupied by people. 5 socio-economic grades we divided are upper classes, upper-middle classes, middle classes, lower-middle classes, and lower classes; 3) suitable spatial scale such as subdistrict or community is used to establish evaluate districts of social class; 4) the computational methods in terms of average social class (ASC), location quotient of social class (LQSC), and inequality indexes of social class (ISC) are proposed. The results show that:there exist obviously spatial agglomeration and spatial inequality of social class in Guangzhou.

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social stratification / social space / socio-economic grade / spatial evaluation / Guangzhou

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WANG Yang, ZHANG Hong-ou, JIN Li-xia, YE Yu-yao, WANG Chang-jian, HUANG Geng-zhi, LI Qiu-ying. AN APPROACH OF SPATIAL EVALUATION OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN CHINESE CITY[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2017, 32(6): 15-23

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