Local Religious Subcultures and Generalized Social Trust in the United States
Using multilevel analyses of 21,193 General Social Survey respondents nested within 256 metropolitan areas and counties, we find that individuals' willingness to trust others is strongly related to the denominational make-up of geographic areas. The percent of evangelical Protestants in the pop...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
USA
/ Subkultur
/ Religiöse Minderheit
/ Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
/ Vertrauen
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion KBQ Nordamerika ZB Soziologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
religious ecology
B Religious Context B Trust |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Using multilevel analyses of 21,193 General Social Survey respondents nested within 256 metropolitan areas and counties, we find that individuals' willingness to trust others is strongly related to the denominational make-up of geographic areas. The percent of evangelical Protestants in the population negatively predicts individual-level generalized trust, while percent mainline Protestant and percent Catholic positively predict trust. The effect sizes of these results are large and robust to statistical controls, and they hold even among nonmembers of the religious groups; for instance, "percent evangelical" predicts lower trust even among nonevangelicals. Black Protestant population share initially appears to predict lower trust, but the association disappears after adjusting for racial residential segregation. Following a longstanding theoretical tradition in the sociology of religion, we argue that the religious characteristics of places-not just individuals-shape local subcultures in ways that affect a broad range of behaviors, attitudes, and values such as generalized trust. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12539 |