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- Title
We're All in This Together: Context, Contacts, and Social Trust in Canada.
- Authors
Phan, Mai B.
- Abstract
How do conditions of diversity and inequality affect the sense of solidarity with each other that is manifested as social trust? This article brings together the literatures on racial heterogeneity, inter-group contact and relative deprivation to test and enrich the existing theoretical understanding of trust. It explores the effects of city and neighborhood contexts, individual experiences of inter-group relations, and their moderating effects on social trust. Findings suggest that the influence of a city's level of ethnic/racial diversity and income inequality is conditioned by inter-group social ties and experiences of discrimination. By considering the characteristics of neighborhoods, racial diversity of cities no longer has any significant association with trust in others. However, income inequality at the city level interacts with experiences of discrimination to undermine trust. Public policies aimed at improving social cohesion would benefit from considering the joint impact of economic and social policies that regulate resource distribution and hence shape inter-group relations.
- Subjects
CANADA; SOCIAL aspects of trust; CULTURAL pluralism; URBAN research; NEIGHBORHOODS & society; SOCIAL cohesion; RACE discrimination
- Publication
Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy, 2008, Vol 8, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
1529-7489
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1530-2415.2008.00151.x