Social Psychological Correlates of Upward Social Mobility among Unmarried Career Women

16 Measures of significance derived in connection with phases of this study not reported here indicate that this relationship is not due to chance. status; social distance is greatest where both Negro and white have low socioeconomic status. (4) The extent to which the foregoing generalizations apply varies with the interaction areas in which distance is expressed. Respondents are most rigid in their responses in the areas of Interpersonal-Physical Distance and Residential Distance, and least rigid regarding Position Distance and Interpersonal-Social Distance.