Are Blacks Really Less Trusting than Whites? Revisiting the Race and Trust Question

Simpson, Brent; McGrimmon, Tucker S.; Irwin, Kyle

doi:10.1093/sf/86.2.525

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“…One problem interpreting these findings is that it is hard to know who "most people" are imagined to be in the trust items. If African Americans think of "most people" as white, then the results support previous findings that African Americans are highly distrustful of white Americans (e.g., Simpson, Tucker, and Irwin 2007;Terrell and Terrell 1981). In any case, the data may be explained by direct personal or vicarious experiences of discrimination (e.g., Feagin and McKinney 2004).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

“It's Hardly Fair to Bring a Child Into the World With the Way Things Look…”: Anomie, Mistrust, and the Impact of Race, SES, and Gender

Thomas

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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This article examines the impact of race, socioeconomic status (SES), and gender on subjective outlook using anomie and general mistrust as indicators. Specifically, this study addresses the following questions: (1) How do African Americans and whites compare with respect to anomie and mistrust? (2) Do racial differences in anomie and mistrust vary by SES? (3) Do African American women have higher levels of anomie and mistrust than whites and African American men? and (4) Are African Americans becoming more or less trusting and anomic over time? Using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) (1972–2014), the analysis reveals significant racial differences in social outlook as measured by anomie and mistrust. African Americans indicate higher levels of both anomie and mistrust than whites even after controls for SES and the other variables. The racial gap in anomie and mistrust increases with increases in SES. Being African American and female is associated with higher levels of anomie but not mistrust. African American mistrust decreases relative to whites over time. More affluent African Americans’ anomie levels slightly increase relative to similar whites over time. Explanations using the “rage of a privileged class” and “intersectionality” ideas are evaluated.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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“It's Hardly Fair to Bring a Child Into the World With the Way Things Look…”: Anomie, Mistrust, and the Impact of Race, SES, and Gender

Thomas

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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“…6 Controlling for the two large population groups that are potentially discriminated against reveals that only the Black population, for which discrimination was probably much worse and went on for substantially longer, seems to contribute negatively to the state-level honesty scores. Simpson et al (2007) nevertheless warns against seeing this as evidence of actual honesty differences by providing evidence suggesting that the bulk of the difference between trust levels of different ethnicities in the US is due to different interpretations of the trust question, not different actual levels of trust. However, for this to apply to perceptions of honesty, the very same interpretative differences must apply to the honesty question.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, some ethnic groups may be locked in a low-trust / weak perceptions trap since history has taught them that they are powerless and controlled unfairly by other groups in society. The distrust and weak expectations of trustworthy behavior created by history may also lead these groups to opt out of general society, thereby reinforcing and perpetuating their negative perceptions of honesty, although they are not necessarily grounded in actual behavior (Simpson et al, 2007).…”

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On the determinants of honesty perceptions in the United States

Bjørnskov

2012

Rationality and Society

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This paper explores the determinants of perceptions of the honesty of most people across 48 US states and three periods. The results show support for the detrimental effects of income inequality but no or little support for a set of popular alternative theories from the related literature on social trust. The decline in honesty perceptions in recent decades is found to have been a consequence of increasing social polarization and the natural decline of the most trusting age cohorts. Residual honesty has increased since the 1970s, giving rise to markedly different policy implications than those forwarded in most studies in the trust literature.

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“…Previous research has linked age (Smith 1997), race (Simpson, McGrimmon, and Irwin 2007), and gender (Irwin, Edwards, and Tamburello 2015) to trust and/or cooperation. We control for each of these factors in our models.…”

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The Effects of Protestant Theological Conservatism and Trust on Environmental Cooperation

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Martinez

2017

Scientific Study of Religion

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Are Blacks Really Less Trusting than Whites? Revisiting the Race and Trust Question

Cited by 70 publications

References 55 publications

“It's Hardly Fair to Bring a Child Into the World With the Way Things Look…”: Anomie, Mistrust, and the Impact of Race, SES, and Gender

“It's Hardly Fair to Bring a Child Into the World With the Way Things Look…”: Anomie, Mistrust, and the Impact of Race, SES, and Gender

On the determinants of honesty perceptions in the United States

The Effects of Protestant Theological Conservatism and Trust on Environmental Cooperation

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