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Deprived White Community? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1940-2005

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Title details

SN:	6237
Title:	Deprived White Community? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1940-2005
Persistent identifier:	10.5255/UKDA-SN-6237-1
Depositor(s):	INDIVIDUAL
Principal investigator(s):	Rogaly, B., University of Sussex. Department of Geography Taylor, R., Birkbeck, University of London. School of Continuing Education
Sponsor(s):	Economic and Social Research Council
Grant number:	RES-148-25-0047

Subject Categories

Economic conditions and indicators - Economics
Cultural history - History
Population history - History
Race relations - Society and culture
Charities, voluntary organisations and voluntary work - Social welfare policy and systems

Abstract

This is a qualitative data collection.

The project charted changes since 1940 in the interface between official descriptions of three Norwich council estates (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) as deprived, and residents' own social and spatial identity practices.

It looked critically at the extent to which residents' social identity practices concord with the notion that the estates make up a homogeneous "community". Through analysing the conflicts between groups of residents with divergent settlement histories, including Travellers, Irish settlers, former rural labourers from Norfolk and people re-housed from central Norwich, it contributed to the unpacking of "whiteness" as an ethnic category in Britain.

Areas identified in official documents as "deprived" since the 1970s, have been the target for area-based initiatives, most recently channelling resources through the NELM (North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit) New Deal for Communities project. Through 25 life-history interviews the researchers aimed to analyse the impact of these initiatives, and the interrelation between policy and its impact on residents' identifications and identity practices. These interviews are not straightforward verbatim transcripts but were redrafted and approved by the participants. The anonymised names used in the transcripts are consistent with those used in the published outputs of the project.

Further information can be found at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research 'Deprived White Community'? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates, 1930-2005 webpage and the ESRC 'Deprived White Community'? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates award webpage.

Coverage, universe, methodology

Time period:	01 January 1940 - 01 January 2005
Dates of fieldwork:	2005, 2006
Country:	England
Geography:	Norwich Norfolk
Spatial units:	No spatial unit
Observation units:	Individuals Families and households
Kind of data:	Textual Numeric
Universe:	Subnational Individuals who have lived in the North Earlham, Larkman and Marlpit social housing areas of Norwich at some point during the course of their lives.
Time dimensions:	Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Sampling procedures:	Volunteer sample; Convenience sample
Number of units:	25 life history interview transcripts.
Method of data collection:	Face-to-face interview
Weighting:	No weighting used.

Keywords

ACCULTURATION	ADULT EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS	ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
ASPIRATION	AUTHORITY	CHANGING SOCIETY
CHILDBIRTH	CIVIL RENEWAL	CLASS CONFLICT
CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS	CLASS DIFFERENTIATION	COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY ACTION	COMMUNITY BEHAVIOUR	COMMUNITY CENTRES
COMMUNITY COHESION	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION
COMMUNITY LEADERS	COMMUNITY LIFE	COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
COST OF LIVING	CULTURAL IDENTITY	CULTURAL INTEGRATION
DEPRESSED AREAS	DISADVANTAGED GROUPS	DIVORCE
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY	EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND	EDUCATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
ELDERLY	EMPLOYMENT HISTORY	ETHNIC GROUPS
ETHNIC MINORITIES	FAMILIES	FAMILY ENVIRONMENT
FAMILY INFLUENCE	FAMILY LIFE	FAMILY MEMBERS
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES	GOVERNMENT ROLE	HOUSEHOLD MIGRATION
HOUSING	IDENTITY	IMMIGRANTS
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS	LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT	LIFE CYCLE
LIFE EVENTS	LIFE HISTORIES	LIVING CONDITIONS
LOCAL HISTORY	LOCATION	MARITAL HISTORY
MARRIAGE	MEDICAL HISTORY	MIGRANTS
NEIGHBOURHOODS	NORWICH	PERSONAL IDENTITY
PLACE OF RESIDENCE	POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIP	POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
POOR PERSONS	POPULATION	POPULATION MIGRATION
POVERTY	PREJUDICE	PUBLIC POLITICAL INFLUENCE
QUALITY OF LIFE	RACE RELATIONS	RACISM
REDUNDANCY	REFUGEES	RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
RESIDENTIAL AREAS	RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY	SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIP
SEXUAL IDENTITY	SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT	SOCIAL ALIENATION
SOCIAL CHANGE	SOCIAL CLASS	SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE
SOCIAL ECONOMY	SOCIAL EXCLUSION	SOCIAL HISTORY
SOCIAL HOUSING	SOCIAL IDENTITY	SOCIAL INEQUALITY
SOCIAL INFLUENCE	SOCIAL INTEGRATION	SOCIAL ISOLATION
SOCIAL MOBILITY	SOCIAL PARTICIPATION	SOCIAL PROBLEMS
SOCIAL PROGRAMMES	SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY	SOCIAL SERVICES
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION	SOCIAL WELFARE	SOCIALIZATION
STANDARD OF LIVING	TRAVELLING PEOPLE	URBAN PLANNING
URBAN SPACES	WHITE PEOPLE	WIDOWED
WIDOWHOOD	WORKING CLASS

Administrative and access information

Date of release:
First edition:	09 July 2009
Copyright:	Copyright B. Rogaly, R. Taylor
Access conditions:	The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See terms and conditions of access for further information.
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Documentation

Title	File Name	Size (KB)
Data list	6237ulist.xls	20
User guide	6237ugide.pdf	1407
Data list	6237ulist.pdf	11
Study information and citation	UKDA_Study_6237_Information.htm	18
READ File	read6237.htm	3

Publications

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By principal investigator(s):
Rogaly, B. and Taylor, R. (2009) 'Moving representations of the 'indigenous white working class'' in K. Sveinsson (ed.) Who cares about the white working class? London, Runnymede Trust, pp.51-58. ISBN: 9-7819067-321-0-3.

Rogaly, B. and Taylor, R. (2009) Moving histories of class and community: identity, place and belonging in contemporary England, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9-7802302-199-3-9.

Rogaly, B. and Taylor, R. (2007) 'Welcome to 'monkey island': identity and community in three Norwich estates' in M. Wetherell, M. Lafleche, and R. Berkeley, Identity, ethnic diversity and community cohesion, London, SAGE Publications, pp.61-74. ISBN: 9-7814129-461-6-2.

Taylor, R. and Rogaly, B. (2007) ''Mrs Fairly is a dirty, lazy type': unsatisfactory households and the problem of problem families in Norwich, 1942-1963', Twentieth Century British History, 18(4), pp.429-452.

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