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SUMMARY:Sociology Colloquia March 1\, John Hipp
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DESCRIPTION:Living in your Own "Private Idaho"\: Egohoods as a New Mea
 sure of Neighborhood\n\nDefining “neighborhoods” is a bedeviling c
 hallenge faced by all studies of neighborhood effects and ecological m
 odels of social processes. Although scholars frequently lament the ina
 dequacies of the various existing definitions of “neighborhood”\, 
 we argue that previous strategies relying on non-overlapping boundarie
 s such as block groups and tracts are fundamentally flawed. The approa
 ch taken here instead builds on insights of the mental mapping literat
 ure\, the social networks literature\, the daily activities pattern li
 terature\, and the travel to crime literature to propose a new definit
 ion of neighborhoods\: egohoods. These egohoods are conceptualized as 
 waves washing across the surface of cities\, as opposed to independent
  units with non-overlapping boundaries. This approach is illustrated u
 sing crime data from seven cities\, and the results show that measures
  aggregated to our egohoods explain about twice as much of the variati
 on in crime across the social environment than do models with measures
  aggregated to block groups or tracts. Results also suggest that measu
 ring inequality in egohoods provides dramatically stronger effects on 
 crime rates than when using the non-overlapping boundary approach\, hi
 ghlighting the important new insights that can be obtained by utilizin
 g our egohood approach.\nTime and place\: TBA\n\nBrief bio\:\nJohn R. 
 Hipp is an Associate Professor in the departments of Criminology\, Law
  and Society\, and Sociology\, at the University of California Irvine.
   His research interests focus on how neighborhoods change over time\,
  how that change both affects and is affected by neighborhood crime\, 
 and the role networks and institutions play in that change.  He approa
 ches these questions using quantitative methods as well as social netw
 ork analysis.  He has published substantive work in such journals as A
 merican Sociological Review\, Criminology\, American Journal of Public
  Health\, Social Forces\, Social Problems\, Social Networks\, Journal 
 of Research in Crime and Delinquency\, Journal of Quantitative Crimino
 logy\, Mobilization\, Health & Place\, City & Community\, Crime & Deli
 nquency\, Urban Studies and Journal of Urban Affairs.  He has publishe
 d methodological work in such journals as Sociological Methodology\, P
 sychological Methods\, and Structural Equation Modeling.
LOCATION:Sociology Boardroom
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