Discriminatory Residential Preferences in Germany—A Vignette Study

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1007/s11577-023-00906-2

Felix Wolter, Or Cohen Raviv, Maila Mertens

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Abstract

Abstract The article focusses on the generating mechanisms of residential segregation for the demand side of housing markets, i.e., discriminatory residential preferences of inhabitants regarding the composition of their neighborhood. The data stem from an online survey among a random sample of the population of a mid-sized German city. In a vignette experiment, respondents were asked to rate example residential settings with respect to their attractiveness. The settings varied regarding the ethnic and religious composition of the neighborhood and other neighborhood characteristics that are positively or negatively related to residential attractiveness. We find that respondents have discriminatory residential preferences toward migrants and the presence of a Muslim community in the neighborhood. One-half of the migrant effect is mitigated if other positively connoted residential characteristics exist. We take this as an indication for statistical discrimination. This does not hold for the “Muslim community” effect. Discrimination gets stronger with higher levels of perceived economic group-threat from migrants. We further find evidence for a cultural group-threat and for the contact hypothesis: religious people are more discriminatory than nonreligious people, and real-life contact with migrants entails less discrimination.

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德国的歧视性居住偏好——一个小插曲研究

摘要本文主要研究住房市场需求侧的居住隔离产生机制，即居民对其社区构成的歧视性居住偏好。这些数据来自一项对德国一个中等城市的随机抽样人口进行的在线调查。在一项小插图实验中，受访者被要求对住宅环境的吸引力进行评分。根据社区的种族和宗教组成以及其他与住宅吸引力呈正相关或负相关的社区特征，环境各不相同。我们发现，受访者对移民和附近穆斯林社区的存在有歧视性的居住偏好。如果存在其他积极隐含的居住特征，则移民效应的一半会被缓解。我们认为这是统计歧视的迹象。这并不适用于“穆斯林社区”效应。来自移民的经济群体威胁程度越高，歧视就越强烈。我们进一步发现了文化群体威胁和接触假说的证据:宗教人士比非宗教人士更具歧视性，与移民的现实接触带来的歧视更少。

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期刊介绍： The sociology journal Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS) ("Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology") was founded in 1948 by the Cologne sociologist Leopold von Wiese as the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie. His successor, René König, broadened the journal''s scope towards social psychological topics, including cultural sociology and qualitative social research, which gave the journal its current name. KZfSS is the most important sociological publication in the German-speaking world in terms of its scope and distribution. It publishes comprehensively on German sociological research in all disciplines and regularly communicates research results from many countries around the world. KZfSS follows the model of a universal sociology journal. In addition to more than 40 double-blind peer-reviewed original research articles per year, it publishes detailed literature reviews and book reviews of German and international literature in a comprehensive review section. The journal thus provides a forum for sociological research and open discussion. Special emphasis is placed on offering young colleagues an opportunity for their first publication. The journal is included in many renowned scientific Abstracting & Indexing databases such as the Social Science Citation Index. In addition to the four annual issues, a supplement coordinated by guest editors is published annually.