(1) A high positive relationship between social rank and urbanization (higher than that reported to date in any U. S. study); (2) A zonal occurrence of low social rank areas near the periphery of the city; (3) A positive relationship between social rank and crowding and industrial composition of the labor force; (4) A positive relationship of urbanization to such life style characteristics as dependent population, aged population, and family size; and (5) A relationship between social area types and dependent population ratio, proportion of the aged, family size, dwelling size, crowding, and industrial composition of the labor force. These findings have been interpreted in terms of the increasing scale of urban industrial society and the related development of patterns of social differentiation of local area populations. Obviously, the interpretations are incomplete. More thorough explication requires the further elaboration and specification of the theory of societal scale and the compilation and analysis of comparable observations drawn from a far wider range of societies than is now available. However, the materials which are currently available concerning the social areas of different cities and which represent the work of many different scholars, constitute, in the judgment of this writer, a series of cumulative efforts and genuine accomplishments that are worth pursuing further.
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Mizruchi et al. (1962) studied this question.