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Residential segregation has been a prominent topic in social science since the great sociologist Ernest Burgess (1928) first published his landmark study on the subject more than 60 years ago. For almost as long, sociologists have argued about how to measure it. The debate has ebbed and flowed, and for a time the issue seemed settled. In 1955, Otis Dudley Duncan and Beverly Duncan published a widely -cited article demonstrating that there was little information contained in any of the then-prevailing indice s that was not already captured by the index of dissimilarity. For 20 years thereafter, this measure was employed as the standard index of residential segregation.
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