Buildings and welfare

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2022-09-26 DOI:10.1177/10434631221129056

M. Ekman

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Abstract

If welfare stigma depends upon social attitudes, only the neediest apply for welfare when they can more easily be seen to do so. Using GoogleMaps' ‘StreetView' feature, this article finds that the approval rate of applications for social assistance is higher in welfare offices with building characteristics that enhance the visibility of entry. A fitting explanation for this finding is that persons looking for social assistance dislike being thought of as ‘welfare cases', and apply more conservatively when others can see it. The effects decline in the rate of poverty, suggesting that the self-reliance norm weakens as poverty increases.

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楼宇及福利

如果福利耻辱感取决于社会态度，那么只有最需要的人才能在更容易被看到的时候申请福利。本文使用谷歌地图的“街景”功能发现，在具有提高进入可见性的建筑特征的福利办公室，社会援助申请的批准率更高。对这一发现的一个恰当解释是，寻求社会援助的人不喜欢被认为是“福利案例”，当其他人看到时，他们会更保守地申请。这种影响会降低贫困率，这表明自力更生的规范会随着贫困的增加而减弱。

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Rationality and Society SOCIOLOGY-

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1.50

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0.00%

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期刊介绍： Rationality & Society focuses on the growing contributions of rational-action based theory, and the questions and controversies surrounding this growth. Why Choose Rationality and Society? The trend toward ever-greater specialization in many areas of intellectual life has lead to fragmentation that deprives scholars of the ability to communicate even in closely adjoining fields. The emergence of the rational action paradigm as the inter-lingua of the social sciences is a remarkable exception to this trend. It is the one paradigm that offers the promise of bringing greater theoretical unity across disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, cognitive psychology, moral philosophy and law.