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In other words, of all cities of comparable size in the region, it has the strongest middle class bias, whereas, with regard to family life cycle, it leans only slightly toward the negative extreme of the dimension characterized by a low mean age of the population and a relatively higher incidence of younger families with children. Only 35% of Altneustadt 's labor force are blue-collar workers, com- 36 Introducing the Community pared to a mean of 49% in all the small cities studied. The middle-class bias of Altneustadt is revealed even more clearly when we use self-identified class as an indicator.
While possibly true in anthropology, it would appear that these ideas were very much in the air of other disciplines during the late 1940s and early 1950s as well (consider the work of Anatol Rapoport, Leon Festinger, and Charles Loomis, to mention only a few). Only more recently have disciplinary walls been breached sufficiently to reveal rather parallel concerns and developments. " Unfortunately, if we were to limit ourselves strictly to this definition, we would not be able to do a network analysis of a social system whose component members exceeded a relatively small number.
The problem is merely one of measuring the characteristics of these pairwise relationships. The tactic we adopted, and we believe with considerable success, was to use the interpoint distances of our multidimensional scaling solutions as structure-specific estimators of these characteristics. , specific persons and population subgroups). 1, which depicts the sequential development of our analysis of community structural differentiation and integration. The book is organized into 24 Introduction: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview three main parts.