1. THE INTERPLAY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY IN HOUSING.
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Selvin, Hanan C.
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SOCIAL science research ,SOCIAL psychology ,SOCIAL policy ,HOUSING ,HUMAN ecology research ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article focuses on a symposium which is apparently the first collection of papers focused primarily on research in the social psychology and sociology of housing as this relates to problems encountered by practitioners in housing and community development. The short history of social and psychological research on problems of housing exhibits marked shifts in the foci of interest, shifts which seem partly to result from institutional changes in housing. Because this reform context of research led to a focus on the social consequences of defective housing, little attention was devoted to the connections between architectural design and patterns of social life in housing environments not ordinarily considered substandard. This growing interest in social research may result from changes in institutional patterns of housing that have highlighted the sociological and psychological assumptions involved in housing practices. Large-scale housing, in contrast to the construction of a custom-built house or of a few houses, involves a relatively centralized body of decisions, with compact and highly visible results.
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- 1951
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