The Spatial Distribution Of Deaths In The City Of Houston, Texas

Author

Thelma Rand Fennoy, Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College

Date of Award

8-1944

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Degree Discipline

Sociology

Abstract

This study is primarily concerned with the spatial pattern of deaths in the city of Houston, Texas, It will mention briefly, however, scare of the research that have previously emphasized the importance and the relation of "place" to sooial phenomena.

Theoretical Statements And Researchers Of Other Scholars

Robert E. Park has been the pioneer figure in America in the application of the ecological approach to the study of human relations. The term ecology was borrowed from the study of plants and their environment and came into Social Science as a logical conclusion. to human or anthropogeography.

Theoretical Statements: Human ecologists have assumed the spatial distribution: of social phenomena. The principle here is that social phenomena vary directly or inversely with the distance from the city, of dominance, the central business district zone. Human ecologists have assumed an order among all living organisms. This order is the result of the "competition of life" as park describes it, which is analogous to Darwin's "struggle for existence".Competition arises among human beings because there is a homogeneity of human wants and demands in excess of nature's supply. This competitor of organisms creates a constructive process known to ecologists and sociologists as symbiosis which is the tendency of one to render services to another. Symbiosis among human beings as well as plants and animals creates a pattern Darwin called the "web of life.

Committee Chair/Advisor

H. A. Bullock

Committee Member

Albun

Committee Member

Albun

Committee Member

Nollie Jackson

Committee Member

Jeanette Jackson, Cubie Faye Webster

Publisher

Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College

Rights

Date of Digitization

1/31/2022

Contributing Institution

Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College

City of Publication

Prairie View

MIME Type

Application/PDF

Recommended Citation

Fennoy, T. R. (1944). The Spatial Distribution Of Deaths In The City Of Houston, Texas. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/1037