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Barriers to voluntary organization membership
— an examination of race and cohort differences | | Author(s) | Sonia Miner, Stewart Tolnay |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 53B, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp S241-S248 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Participation ; Voluntary agencies ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Age stratification, isolation, compensatory and ethnic community perspectives are used, to predict differences by race in use of formal organisations across cohorts. Voluntary organisations are classified into three types: social service clubs; job-related groups; and neighbourhood organisations. It is hypothesised that racial differences by organisational participation will be wider for older cohorts, as a result of historical racism. It is also expected that racial differences across cohorts to be greater for those organisations (i.e. social services and job-related groups) where racial barriers to membership were strongest. Using the US National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and logistic regression analysis to determine predicted probabilities of membership reveals higher levels of participation in organisations for young Blacks (than young Whites). At the oldest ages, however, the race differential reverses direction for social/service and job related organisations. These race-cohort patterns are interpreted as evidence of historical discrimination that affects the oldest cohorts to a greater extent. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010117209 A |
| Classmark | TK: TMB: PK: 3F: 7T |
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