About the empirical study of solidarity: conceptual and methodological approaches

Details

Ressource 1Request a copy Under indefinite embargo.
UNIL restricted access
State: Public
Version: Author's accepted manuscript
Serval ID
serval:BIB_30DE71F152DD
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
About the empirical study of solidarity: conceptual and methodological approaches
Journal
Polis Review
Author(s)
Madero Cabib I., Castillo J. C.
ISSN
0718-6568
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2012
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
31
Pages
158-171
Language
english
Notes
Chile
Abstract
Solidarity is a term with a strong normative charge: "it´s good be a solidarity person". This ethic and normative initial that normally is included in solidarity´s studies, has produced partly the absence of research from the social science to solidarity phenomenon. The little Chilean progress that exists in this sense, has been developed firstly by theoretical works of sociologists that have understood to solidarity as a social and communicative operation destined to maintain people's cohesion in the stratified context of current society; and secondly, by a descriptive measures that has analyzed the solidarity construct in univariate terms. In this paper we´ll get these antecedents to advance in the proposal of a solidarity notion related to its measure in different dimensions of supports conducts, and to its degree of association with different factors from the social stratification scheme that could influence the variation of each dimension. Through an multilevel analysis MANOVA of data from the "Survey of solidarity 2010" (N=1389), generated by the measurement center MIDE UC of the Catholic University of Chile, we conclude that individual variables as the gender and age, and variables of the personal status as the educational level, currently predict the solidarity´s conducts. This suggests that the need for solidarity not only responds to a stratified outlining of modern society, but also that different axes of stratification influence the social dimensions of solidarity.
Keywords
Solidarity, Modernity, Social Stratification, Social Exclusion
Open Access
Yes
Create date
06/05/2012 22:59
Last modification date
20/08/2019 14:15
Usage data