ISBN:
9780521151634
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9780521193153
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9781139781671
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 273 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Segregation and Mistrust
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
"Eric M. Uslaner examines the theoretical and measurement differences between segregation and diversity and summarizes results on how integrated neighborhoods with diverse social networks increase trust in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia"--
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
By examining social networks in North America, Europe and Australia, this book argues segregation, not diversity reduces trust between people
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Trust, diversity, and segregation; 2. Contact, diversity, and segregation; 3. Building trust in a segregated society: The United States; 4. Canada: trust, integration, and the search for identity; 5. The United Kingdom: sleepwalking or wide awake?; 6. Sweden and Australia: newer immigrants, trust, and multiculturalism; 7. Altruism and segregation; 8. Where you sit depends on where you stand; 9. The farmer's daughter and intergroup contact.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Segregation and Mistrust; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Trust, Diversity, and Segregation; Trust: A Multi-Headed Hydra; In-Group Trust, Out-Group Trust, and Diversity; The Five Countries; The Plan of the Book; 2 Contact, Diversity, and Segregation; Diversity: The Downside and the Upside; Contact Theory; Contact, Diversity, and Trust; Diverse Ties and Trust; Segregation and Trust; Segregation and Diversity; Segregation, Inequality, and Trust; The Weakness of Strong Ties; Hanging with the Homeboys: The Route to Low Trust; The Path Ahead; 3 Building Trust in a Segregated Society: The United StatesCracks in the Melting Pot; Residential Isolation in the United States; Can "Optimal Contact" Build Trust?; Trust, Context, and Social Ties for Hispanics; Reprise; 4 Canada: Trust, Integration, and the Search for Identity; Who Lives Where in Canada?; Diversity and Multiculturalism; Integrating into a Multicultural Canada; Trust, Friendships, and Segregation in Canada; Why Contact Works - and Doesn't Work; 5 The United Kingdom: Sleepwalking or Wide Awake?; Living Apart or Together?; Whose Cohesion?; Trust and Social Networks in the United KingdomReprise; 6 Sweden and Australia: Newer Immigrants, Trust, and Multiculturalism; Sweden: The Welfare State and Trust; Minorities, Social Ties, and Trust; Australia: From "White Australia" to Multiculturalism to Assimilation (?); Trust and Social Ties Down Under; Reprise; 7 Altruism and Segregation; Segregation, Diversity, and Altruism; Segregation and Altruism; The Sources of Altruism in the United States; Altruism in the United Kingdom; Reprise; 8 Where You Sit Depends Upon Where You Stand; The Benefits of Integrated Neighborhoods ...
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Trust, diversity, and segregation; 2. Contact, diversity, and segregation; 3. Building trust in a segregated society: The United States; 4. Canada: trust, integration, and the search for identity; 5. The United Kingdom: sleepwalking or wide awake?; 6. Sweden and Australia: newer immigrants, trust, and multiculturalism; 7. Altruism and segregation; 8. Where you sit depends on where you stand; 9. The farmer's daughter and intergroup contact
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