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Social Capital, Interpersonal Trust, and Public Housing.
- Source :
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Australian Social Work . Sep2012, Vol. 65 Issue 3, p413-430. 18p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Addressing the relationship between housing tenure and social disadvantage, this research examines social capital among public tenants in Australia, concentrating on their level of interpersonal trust and confidence in a range of public institutions. Through multivariate analyses of national survey data it also profiles the social and political background of public housing tenants. As expected, public tenants tend to have lower incomes, lower levels of education, and working-class backgrounds, or do not identify with any class location at all. They are less likely to be married or in de facto relationships than people in other housing tenures, but are more likely to identify with the Australian Labor Party than with the Coalition parties. Although public housing tenants have access to secure and affordable housing, they appear to be generally less trusting than private renters or homeowners and exhibit less confidence in government institutions such as the Australian parliament. Public housing tenants express lower levels of interpersonal trust even controlling for a range of social background factors, suggesting that as a form of tenure, public housing in some ways exacerbates the disadvantage of tenants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC housing
*SURVEYS
*CHI-squared test
*CONFIDENCE
*STATISTICAL correlation
*EPIDEMIOLOGY
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*MARITAL status
*MULTIVARIATE analysis
*PRACTICAL politics
*SOCIAL classes
*SOCIAL stigma
*TRUST
*LOGISTIC regression analysis
*SOCIAL capital
*DATA analysis
*QUANTITATIVE research
*SECONDARY analysis
*SOCIAL attitudes
*SOCIOECONOMIC factors
*CONTROL groups
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
AUSTRALIAN politics & government
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0312407X
- Volume :
- 65
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Australian Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 79472044
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2011.635306