Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Ariely, Gal

doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12068

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“…Generally, we also need indicators of perceived shared values. Finally, as argued above and previously, many of the diverging findings in the literature on diversity and social cohesion may not only reflect different conceptions, measures and methods (Ariely 2014; van der Meer and Tolsma 2014) but also that communities and the ways in which they are conceived differ across contexts. Such a perspective supports the idea that community values and national identities are at least partly political phenomena, with different consequences for social cohesion.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Trusting diversity: nationalist and multiculturalist orientations affect generalised trust through ethnic in‐group and out‐group trust

Kongshøj

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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One premise of popular nationalism is that ascribing to a shared culture that enjoys a privileged political status enables us to construct the foundation that is vital to generating and supporting trust among members of the ethnic majority. Multiculturalism presumes that the accommodation of new minority cultures is conducive to trust. Utilising structural equation modelling, this paper distinguishes between ethnic in‐group trust (in the Danish context, trusting fellow Danes) and ethnic out‐group trust (trusting refugees and immigrants), in addition to a more generalised social trust towards unknown others. Previous studies in this field have not distinguished between these different dimensions of social trust. Results show that, vis‐à‐vis generalised trust, at the individual level, nationalism cannot compensate for lower trust towards immigrants with higher trust towards other Danes. There is some support for the ‘national identity’ argument, whereby nationalism, perceived shared values and in‐group trust are positively correlated. However, the net effect of nationalism upon generalised trust remains negative. By contrast, multiculturalism is associated with higher levels of in‐group trust and out‐group trust and ultimately of generalised trust.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Trusting diversity: nationalist and multiculturalist orientations affect generalised trust through ethnic in‐group and out‐group trust

Kongshøj

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Despite this neglect in the study of community attachment over time, heterogeneity is an important dimension of community life that affects numerous social goods, including trust, reciprocity, and volunteerism. In particular, research on community life has focused on race and ethnicity, generally finding that, for example, greater levels of racial and ethnic heterogeneity hurt community life in terms of trust and reciprocity (e.g., Putnam ), participation in social activities (Alesina and La Ferrara ), volunteering and organizational membership (Costa and Kahn ), and social solidarity (Ariely ).…”

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White Ethnic Diversity in Small Town Iowa: A Multilevel Analysis of Community Attachment

Flagg

Painter

2018

Rural Sociology

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Community attachment is the feeling of being connected to community life. Within the community attachment literature, two classic approaches frame scholars’ understanding of this important dimension of community life: the linear development and systemic models. Our empirical models emphasize different factors for community attachment, including population size, density, and heterogeneity for the linear development model and age, length of residence, and social status for the systemic model. Surprisingly, heterogeneity has been omitted from analyses of the linear development model throughout the literature since its introduction, a shortcoming our study addresses. Though heterogeneity can be conceptualized in a number of ways, a large—and growing—body of literature focuses on the effects of race and ethnicity for communities. Here, we focus on a particular type of ethnic heterogeneity—European ancestry—and reincorporate this essential dimension of communities back into the linear development model of community attachment. Using data from the 2004 wave of the Iowa Community Survey and multilevel modeling techniques, we explore how white ethnic diversity matters for community life. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our study, including potential avenues for future research focusing on other ethnicities that are often subsumed under broader racial and panethnic labels.

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“…There is some evidence that diversity reduces social cohesion (Meer & Tolsma, ) and this seems especially true where diversity is found in conjunction with deprivation (Cooper & Innes, ). However, it is important to note that diversity and cohesion levels are not always related in a simple manner, and that cohesion has the opportunity to be affected both positively and negatively, and by more than just ethnic or economic diversity (Ariely, ). Potentially, high diversity may have net positive impacts in terms of multiculturalism and the disruption of embedded cultural processes, despite negative impacts in other areas.…”

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Diversity and burglary: Do community differences matter?

Gulma

Evans

Heppenstall

et al. 2018

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Diversity within a population has been linked to levels of both social cohesion and crime. Neighborhood crimes are the result of a complex set of factors, one of which is weak community cohesion. This article seeks to explore the impacts of diversity on burglary crime in a range of neighborhoods, using Leeds, UK as a case study. We propose a new approach to quantifying the correlates of burglary in urban areas through the use of diversity metrics. This approach is useful in unveiling the relationship between burglary and diversity in urban communities. Specifically, we employ stepwise multiple regression models to quantify the relationships between a number of neighborhood diversity variables and burglary crime rates. The results of the analyses show that the variables that represent diversity were more significant when regressed against burglary crime rates than standard socio‐demographic data traditionally used in crime studies, which do not generally use diversity variables. The findings of this study highlight the importance of neighborhood cohesion in the crime system, and the key place for diversity statistics in quantifying the relationships between neighborhood diversities and burglary. The study highlights the importance of policy planning aimed at encouraging community building in promoting neighborhood safety.

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Does Diversity Erode Social Cohesion? Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Cited by 36 publications

References 69 publications

Trusting diversity: nationalist and multiculturalist orientations affect generalised trust through ethnic in‐group and out‐group trust

Trusting diversity: nationalist and multiculturalist orientations affect generalised trust through ethnic in‐group and out‐group trust

White Ethnic Diversity in Small Town Iowa: A Multilevel Analysis of Community Attachment

Diversity and burglary: Do community differences matter?

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