Bullock Heather E
Psychology Department, Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2004 Dec;144(6):571-88. doi: 10.3200/SOCP.144.6.571-590.
Social workers and welfare recipients operate within the same institutional framework and share a working and/or lived knowledge of poverty, but they occupy different social and economic positions. To gain a better understanding of intergroup attitudes, the author compared how social workers and welfare recipients explain poverty and perceive the welfare system. The results highlight important similarities and differences between the two groups. Although the author did not find differences for individualistic attributions, welfare recipients regarded prejudice as playing a greater role in causing poverty than did social workers. Welfare recipients also expressed stronger support for increased welfare funding and progressive welfare policies than did social workers. The author discussed implications for strengthening interclass alliances, particularly the relationship between social service providers and welfare recipients.
社会工作者和福利领取者在相同的制度框架内开展工作，并且都拥有关于贫困的工作和/或生活知识，但他们处于不同的社会和经济地位。为了更好地理解群体间的态度，作者比较了社会工作者和福利领取者对贫困的解释以及对福利制度的看法。研究结果凸显了两组之间重要的异同点。尽管作者没有发现两组在个人主义归因方面存在差异，但福利领取者认为偏见在导致贫困方面所起的作用比社会工作者认为的更大。福利领取者对增加福利资金和进步性福利政策的支持也比社会工作者更强烈。作者讨论了加强阶级间联盟的意义，特别是社会服务提供者与福利领取者之间的关系。
