Who by Accident? The Social Morphology of Car Accidents

被引:36
作者
Factor, Roni [1 ,2 ]
Yair, Gad [3 ]
Mahalel, David [2 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Global Hlth & Populat, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Fac Civil & Environm Engn, Transportat Res Inst, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[3] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, IL-91905 Jerusalem, Israel
关键词
Health; multiple correspondence analysis; risk; road accidents; social class; SEAT-BELT USE; SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS; HEALTH INEQUALITIES; RISK; SAFETY; SPACE; DRIVERS; RACE; AGE; CONSEQUENCES;
D O I
10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01423.x
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Prior studies in the sociology of accidents have shown that different social groups have different rates of accident involvement. This study extends those studies by implementing Bourdieu's relational perspective of social space to systematically explore the homology between drivers' social characteristics and their involvement in specific types of motor vehicle accident. Using a large database that merges official Israeli road-accident records with socioeconomic data from two censuses, this research maps the social order of road accidents through multiple correspondence analysis. Extending prior studies, the results show that different social groups indeed tend to be involved in motor vehicle accidents of different types and severity. For example, we find that drivers from low socioeconomic backgrounds are overinvolved in severe accidents with fatal outcomes. The new findings reported here shed light on the social regularity of road accidents and expose new facets in the social organization of death.
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页码:1411 / 1423
页数:13
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