The social production of altruism: motivations for caring action in a low-income urban community
| Autor: | Jacqueline S. Mattis, William Brennan, Meredith Bonacci, Wizdom Powell Hammond, Sheri Ann E. Cowie, Sara So, Lina Ladyzhenskaya, Nyasha A. Grayman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male Health (social science) Urban Population media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Article Interpersonal relationship Social support Young Adult Humans Interpersonal Relations Sociology Applied Psychology media_common Aged Aged 80 and over Motivation Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support Middle Aged Altruism Prosocial behavior Socioeconomic Factors Positive psychology Norm (social) Ideology Psychological Theory Social psychology Social capital |
| Zdroj: | American journal of community psychology. 43(1-2) |
| ISSN: | 1573-2770 |
| Popis: | Contemporary social science paints a bleak picture of inner-city relational life. Indeed, the relationships of low-income, urban-residing Americans are represented as rife with distress, violence and family disruption. At present, no body of social scientific work systematically examines the factors that promote loving or selfless interactions among low-income, inner-city American individuals, families and communities. In an effort to fill that gap, this ethnographic study examined the motivations for altruism among a sample of adults (n = 40) who reside in an economically distressed housing community (i.e., housing project) in New York City. Content analyses of interviews indicated that participants attributed altruism to an interplay between 14 motives that were then ordered into four overarching categories of motives: (1) needs-centered motives, (2) norm-based motives deriving from religious/spiritual ideology, relationships and personal factors, (3) abstract motives (e.g., humanism), and (4) sociopolitical factors. The implications of these findings are discussed. |
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