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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DOI
10.12681/eadd/44530
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/44530
ND
44530
Alternative title
Περιοχές αποστέρησης, ευάλωτες ομάδες και επίδραση της γειτονιάς στην Αθήνα
Author
vakalopoulos, konstantinos (Father's name: alexandros)
Date
2018
Degree Grantor
Harokopio University
Committee members
Μαλούτας Θωμάς
Δελλαδετσίμας Παύλος - Μαρίνος
Σαγιάς Ιωάννης
Παπαδόπουλος Απόστολος
Κανδύλης Γεώργιος
Αράπογλου Βασίλειος
Φραγκόπουλος Ιωάννης
Discipline
Social Sciences
Sociology
Keywords
Neighbourhood effect; Socio - spatial inequality; Phenomenology
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
685 σ., im., tbls., ch.
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