FACTORIAL ECOLOGY AND THE COMMUNITY OF OUTLOOK∗

∗ I would like to express my thanks to Fred E. Lukermann, John S. Adams, and Douglas J. Caruso for their advice and criticism; to the students in geography at Normandale State Junior College who helped carry out the survey, especially Elizabeth Jungels, Jonette Kreidweis, and Mary Vavrosky; to Richard V. Francaviglia's class in human geography at the University of Minnesota for supplementary information; to Shiu-Yeu Li and the Social Science Research Facility Center of the University of Minnesota; and to the Hodgen Fund of the University of California, Berkeley.

ABSTRACT

Research on the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area casts doubt on the assertion that factorial ecology can be used to derive the “community of outlook. ”Social areas delimited by factorial ecology were not effective in identifying common interests and values as revealed by the composite of printed information sources in sampled households.

KEY WORDS:

• Community
• Factorial ecology
• Social areas

Notes

∗ I would like to express my thanks to Fred E. Lukermann, John S. Adams, and Douglas J. Caruso for their advice and criticism; to the students in geography at Normandale State Junior College who helped carry out the survey, especially Elizabeth Jungels, Jonette Kreidweis, and Mary Vavrosky; to Richard V. Francaviglia's class in human geography at the University of Minnesota for supplementary information; to Shiu-Yeu Li and the Social Science Research Facility Center of the University of Minnesota; and to the Hodgen Fund of the University of California, Berkeley.