Local Religious Subcultures and Generalized Social Trust in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Marshall ◽  
Daniel V. A. Olson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Subcultures

The Setting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evangelical Christianity ◽  
Interracial Relations ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter presents the historical and conceptual background to the book’s argument. It starts with a history of Ghana, followed by an analysis of the trends that have led to high levels of out-migration, and then to a description of Ghanaian populations in Chicago. Next, it addresses the concept of social trust in general and personal trust in particular, developing a theory of personal trust as an imaginative and symbolic activity, and analyzing interracial relations through the lens of racialized distrust. It concludes by describing the role of religion in the integration of immigrant groups into the United States and the particular religious frameworks that characterize Charismatic Evangelical Christianity in Ghana.

Honesty and trust in old and new democracies: Challenges and disappointments

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (s1) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Developing Societies

In 2002, János Kornai and the author organized a project that sought to confront distrust, corruption, and dishonesty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. In reflecting on that project, this essay highlights present-day weaknesses in the region’s transition and stresses equally troubling developments in the United States that could make government less open to input from civil society groups and low-income individuals. Building a trustworthy state and creating social trust remain challenges for committed democrats in both developed and developing societies.

The Prosperity Gospel of Coronavirus Response

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Paul A. Djupe ◽  
Ryan P. Burge
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Virus Research ◽  
State Responses

Abstract The sweep of the coronavirus pandemic across the world and the United States offers an almost unparalleled opportunity to study how social systems cope with the threat and opportunities for collective action. In this paper, we draw on survey data collected as the United States flailed in response and before a general consensus among executive officeholders developed in the following weeks. In particular, we assess how holding prosperity gospel views strongly shaped perceptions of the virus and reactions to state responses to the virus. Research on the prosperity gospel is slowly expanding and this paper helps to highlight some missing dimensions. At a time when concerted action for the social good could be uniting the country, prosperity gospel beliefs systematically undermine that possibility by augmenting threat, raising outgroup barriers, and decreasing social trust.

scholarly journals Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 102537
Author(s):  
Jan Mewes ◽  
Malcolm Fairbrother ◽  
Giuseppe Nicola Giordano ◽  
Cary Wu ◽  
Rima Wilkes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level

scholarly journals Trust and Local Bias

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 2211-2245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chishen Wei ◽  
Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Additional Analysis ◽  
Trust Regions ◽  
Local Bias ◽  
Informational Advantage

In this article, we examine the effect of social trust on local bias. Our evidence suggests that institutional investors located in high-trust regions of the United States exhibit lower local bias. Moreover, we find that high-trust investors are better diversified, suggesting that trust helps accomplish greater diversification. The results are not due to firm, demographic, or local economic characteristics. Additional analysis reveals that the documented informational advantage in local holdings exists only in low-trust regions. We show that this finding is consistent with a trust explanation.

scholarly journals SO ORDERED: A Textual Analysis of United States’ Governors’ Press Release Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-246
Author(s):  
Taylor Voges ◽  
Matthew Binford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Press Release ◽  
Individual State ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Threat

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique environment from which each individual state, in the United States, has been forced to address their publics. In order to understand how each state has engaged with this pandemic, a textual analysis of each state’s governor’s first press release was conducted; five thematic trends were identified. Through use of the social trust approach to risk communication and the contingency theory of strategic conflict management (using external threat variables), the implications of these press releases are discussed.

Health Insurance in an Era of Declining Social Capital

World Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 183 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-358
Author(s):  
Jackson Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Sharp Decline ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Health Insurance

Putnam’s seminal work on social capital focused on early forms of health insurance as both a result, and accelerator, of the norms of reciprocity and social trust that foster cooperation. Yet, while social capital has been studied as a factor supporting community-based health insurance in developing countries, there has been no analysis of its role in U.S. health insurance. With repeal of the mandate to carry health insurance, this product is once again a purely voluntary purchase, and bears analysis as a cooperation problem. Putnam later documented a sharp decline in social capital in the United States. If social capital undergirds participation in health insurance, we can expect reduced reciprocity to lower willingness to cross-subsidize the sick. Waning social capital could also manifest itself in reduced trust that other healthy people will purchase insurance and lack of trust in the providers and manufacturers who make claims on the insurance pool.

scholarly journals Support for immigration reduction and physician distrust in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 205031211665256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank L Samson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
General Trust ◽  
Physician Trust ◽  
National Probability Sample

Objectives: Health research indicates that physician trust in the United States has declined over the last 50 years. Paralleling this trend is a decline in social capital, with researchers finding a negative relationship between immigration-based diversity and social capital. This article examines whether physician distrust is also tied to immigration-based diversity and declining social capital. Methods: Data come from the 2012 General Social Survey, one of the gold standards of US public opinion surveys, using a national probability sample of 1080 adult US respondents. Key measures included support for reducing levels of immigration to the United States and multiple measures of physician trust. Results: The results of ordinary least squares regressions, using survey weights, indicate that support for reducing immigration is positively linked to physician distrust, bringing physician distrust into the orbit of research on diversity and declining social capital. Models controlled for age, education, income, gender, race, nativity, conservatism, unemployed status, lack of health insurance, and self-rated health. Furthermore, analyses of a subset of respondents reveal that measures of general trust and some forms of institutional trust do not explain away the association between support for immigration reduction and physician distrust, though confidence in science as an institution appears relevant. Conclusion: Consistent with diversity and social capital research, this article finds that an immigration attitude predicts physician distrust. Physician distrust may not be linked just to physician–patient interactions, the structure of the health care system, or health policies, but could also be tied to declining social trust in general.

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