Race, alienation, and interpersonal mistrust

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2155241
AutoresA Demaris (0000-0002-7622-9325, a Department of Sociology , Bowling Green University , Bowling Green, Ohio, 43403), Renxin Yang (Bowling Green State University)
Ano1994
Volume14
Fascículo4
Páginas327-349
Data de publicação1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Spectrum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02732173.1994.9982075
OpenAlexW2028663935
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas33

A structural model is proposed that explains race differences in interpersonal trust as a function of blacks' disadvantaged position vis à vis whites in the socioeconomic opportunity structure. This disadvantage, in turn, engenders a sense of alienation that is detrimental to the development of trustin the "generalized other." Data basedon the 1991 General Social Survey were largely supportive of the model. Compared with whites, blacks appear to be more alienated and less trusting of others. Although race differences in alienation and trust are partially accounted for by the proposed intervening variables, blacks are still significantly more alienated and less trusting than whites even after socioeconomic status is held constant

Alienation · Disadvantage · Disadvantaged · Interpersonal communication · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies