Civic Engagement and Particularized Trust

Uslaner, Eric M.; Conley, Richard S.

doi:10.1177/1532673x03031004001

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“…Considering that personal resources and human capital positively affect volunteering (Smith 1994;Wilson 2000), utilizing the volunteer labor of this group becomes more important than ever. Active involvement of immigrant groups in a larger community through volunteering activities will also build a larger social network in which diverse groups interact with each other to solve collective action problems (Putnam 2000;Uslaner and Conley 2003). Nevertheless, most research has focused on the general population rather than specific ethnic and immigrant groups, and little is known about the patterns of Asian immigrants' volunteering and what may facilitate or prevent their volunteering (Handy and Greenspan 2008;Sundeen et al 2009).…”

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Mainstream and Ethnic Volunteering by Korean Immigrants in the United States

Lee

Moon

2011

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Asian immigrants accounted for one-eighth of the total U.S. population in 2009. With Asian immigrants having higher levels of education and income than average Americans, their potential contribution to American philanthropy will be even more significant. This study examines the volunteering patterns of Korean immigrants, one of the fastest growing segments of the Asian immigrant population in the United States. This study explains Korean immigrants' volunteering within ethnic and mainstream (American) organizations using the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital. The bivariate probit regression results suggest that ethnic volunteering and mainstream volunteering are generally the substitutes for each other. The findings nevertheless suggest that providing Asian immigrants' with English education and continuing education opportunities may boost their volunteering to mainstream nonprofit organizations without discouraging their volunteering for ethnic organizations.Résumé Les immigrants asiatiques représentaient un huitième de la population totale des É .U. en 2009. Le niveau d'éducation et le revenu des immigrants asiatiques étant supérieurs à ceux d'un américain moyen, leur contribution potentielle à la philanthropie en Amérique n'en est que plus importante. Cette étude examine les modalités de bénévolat des immigrants coréens, l'un des segments de population dont l'accroissement est le plus rapide parmi les immigrants asiatiques aux É tatsUnis. Cette étude utilise les concepts de cohésion et de rapprochement du capital social pour explorer le bénévolat des immigrants coréens au sein des organisations ethniques et traditionnelles (américaines). Les résultats du modèle probit à deux variables suggèrent que le bénévolat ethnique et le bénévolat traditionnel se substituent généralement l'un à l'autre. Néanmoins, les conclusions suggèrent que le fait de donner aux immigrants asiatiques une éducation anglaise ainsi que des opportunités de poursuite des études sont susceptibles d'accroître leur participation bénévole aux organisations à but non lucratif traditionnelles, sans pour autant décourager leurs efforts de bénévolat envers les organisations ethniques.Zusammenfassung 2009 machten asiatische Einwanderer ein Achtel der gesamten US-Bevölkerung aus. Da der Bildungsstand und das Einkommen asiatischer Einwanderer über dem durchschnittlicher Amerikaner liegt, nimmt ihr potentieller Beitrag zur amerikanischen Philantrophie noch an Bedeutung zu. Diese Studie untersucht die Verhaltensmuster koreanischer Einwanderer im ehrenamtlichen Bereich. Koreaner zählen zu den am schnellsten wachsenden Teilen der asiatischen eingewanderten Bevölkerung in den USA. Die Studie erläutert die ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeiten koreanischer Einwanderer bei ethnischen und generellen (amerikanischen) Organisationen, die Konzepte zur Bindung und Ü berbrückung von sozialem Kapital anwenden. Die Ergebnisse der bivariaten Probit-Regression lassen darauf schließen, dass ethnische und generelle ehrenamtliche Tätigkeiten im Allgemeinen untereinan...

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Mainstream and Ethnic Volunteering by Korean Immigrants in the United States

Lee

Moon

2011

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“…If we consider social trust, sociability or conversation about politics, we can consider that the civic values of democracy (the ability to put oneself in others' shoes, to dialogue and to argue, as well as to participate with other different people) find more support in non-institutionalised individual participation. This hypothesis is not new; in a study on social trust in the US, the authors came to the conclusion that the most one could expect from associations was a particularised trust, generating values that are very different from those normally associated with a civic democratic culture -strong and exclusive links within the association; weak links and distrust towards the outside- (Uslaner and Conley 2003).…”

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2015

Revista OBETS

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“…However, it has been argued that different types of organizations have varying effects on adherence to generalized trust of their members (Stolle and Rochon 2001;Coffé and Geys 2007;Maloney, van Deth, and Roßteutscher 2008). A corollary to this literature is the assumption that participation in ethno-national organizations induces particularized trust and attitudes, as opposed to generalized trust (Newton 1999b;Putnam 2000;Mutz 2002;Uslaner 2002;Uslaner and Conley 2003;Marschall and Stolle 2004;Theiss-Morse and Hibbing 2005;Paxton 2007).…”

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Back to the Future: revisiting the contact hypothesis at Turkish and mixed non-profit organizations in Amsterdam

Achbari¹

2013

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This paper revisits the contact hypothesis by assessing differences in generalized trust among participants of Turkish non-profit organizations and ethnically mixed organizations in Amsterdam. Most voluntary sector research takes the contact hypothesis at its core and assumes that the concentration of ethnic minorities in non-profit organizations is detrimental to learning generalized trust. These studies assume that diversity within organizations is better for developing generalized norms without examining participation in ethnically homogenous organizations. I address this gap in the literature by analysing the variance of generalized trust among organizations and their participants. I achieve this through the analysis of purposively designed survey data. The findings suggest that a contact mechanism at voluntary organizations is problematic and should not be asserted uncritically.

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Civic Engagement and Particularized Trust

Cited by 223 publications

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Mainstream and Ethnic Volunteering by Korean Immigrants in the United States

Mainstream and Ethnic Volunteering by Korean Immigrants in the United States

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Back to the Future: revisiting the contact hypothesis at Turkish and mixed non-profit organizations in Amsterdam

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