ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter a series of social and economic factors was outlined as the reason why various classes and groups within a society wish to distance themselves from other groups and classes, the members of whom are perceived as threats to the established economic and social order. The present chapter investigates how these desires are operated in societies where the dominant groups lack the total hegemony described at the end of the last chapter. First, however, a brief description of the general pattern of segregation in capitalist cities is provided, as a backdrop to the later explanation.
