Document Type
Dissertation - University Access Only
Award Date
1991
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department / School
Rural Sociology
Abstract
This research attempted to ascertain the causes of racial disorders in the period of 1968-69 in the seven Southern states. Deprivation, mobilization, and social control in a community were analyzed in terms of their explanatory power in predicting the occurrence and severity of the 1960s' racial disorders. The social dynamic model for this research has been developed through the close examination of two dominant theories in the area of collective behavior: deprivation breakdown, and resource mobilization theory. While the former assumes the irrationality and discontinuity of collective action, the latter regards it as an essentially purposeful, rational pursuit or defense of collective goods. In an attempt to synthesize these two perspectives, the occurrence and severity of racial disorders can be explained through the interaction and feedback process of deprivation, mobilization and social control factors. Nineteen community characteristics representing deprivation, mobilization, and social control factors has been collected for this research. Hypotheses generated from the social dynamic model were examined with empirical data using correlation coefficients, discriminant analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results of correlation coefficients revealed that the racial disorders are more likely to occur in communities with less deprivation for blacks in terms of education, income, occupation, and housing conditions, and in communities with black organizations, a larger black population size, and a less dominant Southern tenancy system. The overall pattern of these correlations was sustained after partialing out total and black population. The findings of discriminant and multiple regression analysis showed that combining the variables of black population size, black housing conditions, black organizations, and black farm owners would be the best model accounting for the occurrence and severity of racial disorders. Therefore, the 1960s' racial disorders in the South cannot be adequately explained by a single variable of black population size, but a combination model including black organizations, black housing conditions, and the number of black farm owners through which the level of available resources for mobilization among blacks could be estimated.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- History Southern States -- Race relations -- History
Format
application/pdf
Number of Pages
185
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Lee, Sae-Il, "Mobilization, Social Control, and Racial Disorder in Southern States" (1991). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd2/1167