1. Back to the Future: revisiting the contact hypothesis at Turkish and mixed non-profit organizations in Amsterdam.
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Achbari, Wahideh
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CONTACT hypothesis (Sociology) ,TURKS ,NONPROFIT organizations & society ,ETHNICITY & society ,SOCIAL aspects of trust ,CULTURAL pluralism ,CULTURAL pluralism -- Social aspects ,CULTURAL relations ,TWENTY-first century ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
This paper revisits the contact hypothesis by assessing differences in generalized trust among participants of Turkish non-profit organizations and ethnically mixed organizations in Amsterdam. Most voluntary sector research takes the contact hypothesis at its core and assumes that the concentration of ethnic minorities in non-profit organizations is detrimental to learning generalized trust. These studies assume that diversity within organizations is better for developing generalized norms without examining participation in ethnically homogenous organizations. I address this gap in the literature by analysing the variance of generalized trust among organizations and their participants. I achieve this through the analysis of purposively designed survey data. The findings suggest that a contact mechanism at voluntary organizations is problematic and should not be asserted uncritically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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