On the Correlation of Factors in Factorial Ecology

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Berge, Erling
Date:	1987
Agency:	Institutt for Socialforskning, Oslo, Norway
Series:	NOTAT 87:12
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4246
Sector:	Social Organization
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Subject(s):	human ecology sociology
Abstract:	"Most studies in factorial ecology use orthogonal factors. But the assumption is that this, at best can be considered a theoretically limiting case. In 'reality' factors are assumed to correlate. "Introducing a distinction between factors describing the structure of a social system and factors describing the environment of the social system, the present paper argues that factors describing the structure of a social system in most cases will be found to be orthogonal. They will, however, have to correlate with factors describing the environment of the social system. A reanalysis of a previous study of the Norwegian factorial ecology gives some support for the argument."

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