Entry:

Campbell, Karen E., "Networks Past: A 1939 Bloomington Neighborhood," Social Forces, 69 (September, 1990), 139-155.


Abstract:

Study of a 1939 Indiana community shows that while networks may have been larger, neighborhoods in the past need not have been more sociable than current neighborhoods.

GSS Years:

1985

Other Data Sets:

Sweetser 1939

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
NUMGIVEN

NUMBER OF PERSONS MENTIONED

NEIGHBR1

PERSON #1 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR2

PERSON #2 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR3

PERSON #3 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR4

PERSON #4 IS RS NEIGHBOR

NEIGHBR5

PERSON #5 IS RS NEIGHBOR

FRIEND1

PERSON #1 IS RS FRIEND

FRIEND2

PERSON #2 IS RS FRIEND

FRIEND3

PERSON #3 IS RS FRIEND

FRIEND4

PERSON #4 IS RS FRIEND

FRIEND5

PERSON #5 IS RS FRIEND