Chapter Three. Is Altruism More Effective Where It Is Required More? Collectivity-Orientation And Involvement In Interest, Issue And Religious Associations

Meulemann, Heiner

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004163621.i-328.17

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“…There are two basic mechanisms through which the country context determines individual levels of social capital (Meulemann 2008). The first is social order which, through existing social norms, directly guides individual actions.…”

Section: Controls: Country-level Determinants Of Involvement In Volunmentioning

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“…Details on the EVS databases are available at www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu. As in previous studies of this nature (Meulemann 2008;Neller 2008), for country development, we employ the level of economic output, GDP/capita, measured in PPP. Immigrant stock is the percentage of people not born in the respective country, as provided by the UN Population Data Set (www.unpopulation.org).…”

Section: Country-level Independent Variablesmentioning

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Immigrant Involvement in Voluntary Associations in Europe

Voicu¹,

Șerban

2012

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper measures the impact of immigration on migrants' involvement in associations across Europe. Using multilevel analysis on European Social Survey (ESS) data, we address three questions: Are immigrants likely to become members in voluntary associations? Does this likelihood change with the length of stay in the host country? Does the type of the association make a difference? The findings show that the likelihood of migrants participating in associations increases with the length of stay, while secondgeneration migrant participation is similar to that of the host society. The relation is stronger for expressive associations and weaker for instrumental-utilitarian ones, while religious organisations are more likely to attract new immigrants.

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Section: Controls: Country-level Determinants Of Involvement In Volunmentioning

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Section: Country-level Independent Variablesmentioning

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Immigrant Involvement in Voluntary Associations in Europe

Voicu¹,

Șerban

2012

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…H. Meulemann (2008) describes three types of associations existing in the community: interest based associations, problem based associations and religious associations, which are both interest (value) based and problem based. It would be fruitful to develop the research exploring the relationship between the dimensions of social capital and engagement in different types of associations in the community.…”

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Education of Sociality in Small Communities

Dumčienė¹,

Lapėnienė²

2018

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Research background and hypothesis. Sociality in small communities leads to accrued social capital of bonding, bridging and linking. Education of community members’ sociality increases bonding, bridging and linking social capital of the community. Research aim of this study was to reveal the links between activity of community groups and community bonding, bridging and linking social capital.Research methods. The subjects filled in the questionnaire based on the research of F. J. Elgar et al. (2011). The sociality was associated with community social capital, namely its components of bonding social capital, bridging social capital and linking social capital. The subjects were asked to evaluate the items using Likert type 5 point scale.The participants were divided into two groups: engaged in community activities (240 people, among them 35% males and 65% females, mean age 48.52 years) and not engaged in activities (262 people, 62.6% females and 37.4% males, mean age 46.97 years). Research results. The estimates of both groups on bonding social capital scale were not statistically significant (p > 0.05). Statistically significant differences were found assessing the bridging social capital (p < 0.05; t = 4.56), and linking social capital (p < 0.05; t = 3.17) in both groups. Checking the differences of opinions between both groups of men – men and women – women showed statistically significant differences only for women’s bridging social capital (p < 0.05; t = 88.19) and linking social capital (p < 0.05; t = 4.01).Discussion and conclusions.The data confirmed the hypothesis that bridging and linking social capital was related to community engagement. The engaged participants indicated higher levels of bridging and linking social capital.

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“…That means that social capital may function in an exclusionary way, causing exclusion rather than inclusion. Indeed, research has shown that social capital may significantly differ by individual, group, and country (Lin, 2000;Lin & Erickson, 2008;Meulemann, 2008aMeulemann, , 2008bNeller, 2008;Putnam, 2002;Schmitt-Beck, 2008;van der Meer, Scheepers, & Grotenhuis, 2008).…”

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“…Social participation may be characterized in terms of quantity (i.e., frequency of contact) and quality (i.e., content) of contact (van der Meer et al, 2008) and different items have been used to measure these features of networks, including questions about the frequency of meeting socially with friends, relatives, and colleagues (Meulemann, 2008b;Schmitt-Beck, 2008;van der Meer et al, 2008); the level of help provided to others (Schmitt-Beck, 2008;van der Meer et al, 2008); (not) having someone to have intimate discussions with (van der Meer et al, 2008); degree of participation in social activities (Meulemann, 2008b); and membership in voluntary organizations (Schmitt-Beck, 2008). It has been claimed that the focus on participation in formal networks (i.e., civic participation) is overemphasized in social capital research, and that more attention to participation in informal networks (i.e., social participation) is needed (van der Meer et al, 2008) because direct participation in the informal social networks of everyday life is more important in generating social capital than involvement in formally organized voluntary associations (Yamagishi & Yamagishi, 1993).…”

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The Relationship Between Social Capital and Individualism–Collectivism in Europe

2017

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The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between social capital and individualism-collectivism in a sample of 50,417 individuals from 29 European countries using data from the European Social Survey Round 6 (2012). Social capital was measured in terms of generalized social trust and informal social networks; individualism-collectivism was operationalized via Schwartz's Openness to Change-Conservation value dimension.Results from a hierarchical linear modeling analysis showed that less than 10 per cent of variance in social capital indicators was found between countries, meaning that the level of social capital varies more substantively between individuals than between the countries.Openness to Change had a weak but statistically significant and positive relationship both with the indices of Generalized Social Trust and Informal Social Networks, which remained significant even when individual age, gender, education level, and domicile were controlled for. In sum, our findings show that the positive relationship between social capital and individualism that has been found at the cultural level also holds at the individual level:people who emphasize independent thought, action, and readiness to change are also more willing to believe that most people can be trusted and are more engaged in informal social networks. The relationship is, nevertheless, very weak and the strength of the association varies significantly across different European countries. This variation, however, cannot be explained by country differences in level of democracy or human development and the country's wealth moderates only the individual level relationship between Openness to Change and Informal Social Networks. Our findings suggest that sources of social capital at the individual level can be found in people's immediate social surroundings, as well as their everyday social interactions.

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Chapter Three. Is Altruism More Effective Where It Is Required More? Collectivity-Orientation And Involvement In Interest, Issue And Religious Associations

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Immigrant Involvement in Voluntary Associations in Europe

Immigrant Involvement in Voluntary Associations in Europe

Education of Sociality in Small Communities

The Relationship Between Social Capital and Individualism–Collectivism in Europe

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