Areas of deprivation, vulnerable groups and neighbourhood effects: the case of Athens
Abstract
This PhD thesis explores the neighborhood effect on a central area of Athens, which includes parts of Kato Patisia, Agios Nikolaos and Kipseli. The concept of neighborhood effect raises the issue that a poor neighborhood affects the life chances of its inhabitants, such as income, employment, exposure to violence, education, etc. The term became popular in the field of sociology and urban geography after the publication of the book The Trully Disadvantaged by Wilson in 1987. Since then, the question of whether poor neighborhoods affect the life chances of their residents, particularly those living in conditions of economic deprivation, concerns a great proportion of social scientists.The neighborhood effect research which conducted in this dissertation, includes both quantitative methods and ethnographic research. By using the methods of correspondence analysis and cluster analysis, which are the two main statistical methods of this book, it was identified the area in which the ethnog ...
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