Salazar Esmeralda Sánchez, Chan Esther, Mehta Sharan Kaur
The Pennsylvania State University, 601 Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Sociology, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, MI 53201, USA.
Soc Probl. 2024 Nov 16. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spae066.
Recent surveys reveal declines in the U.S. public's confidence in different institutions. Although some studies link these declines to religious factors, few disaggregate these patterns across racial and ethnic groups. Here, we focus on Latinos-a growing segment of the U.S. population and an increasingly religiously diverse part of the electorate. Using original, nationally representative survey data (N=4,321), we compare Latino evangelicals and Catholics to their white counterparts in their confidence in five institutions (religious organizations, higher education, the scientific community, Congress, and the press). We find that Latino and white Catholics consistently show high levels of confidence across institutions relative to white evangelicals. Our findings suggest that there may be more similarities in institutional confidence among those of different racial and ethnic groups who share a similar religious tradition than those who are of the same race or ethnicity but share different religious traditions. Patterns observed highlight the importance of examining institutional confidence through an intersectional lens that considers religious diversity and racial and ethnic groups.
最近的调查显示，美国公众对不同机构的信心有所下降。尽管一些研究将这些下降归因于宗教因素，但很少有研究按种族和族裔群体对这些模式进行分类。在此，我们聚焦于拉丁裔——美国人口中不断增长的一部分，也是选民中宗教信仰日益多样化的一部分。我们使用具有全国代表性的原始调查数据（N = 4321），比较了拉丁裔福音派和天主教徒与白人福音派和天主教徒在对五个机构（宗教组织、高等教育、科学界、国会和媒体）的信心方面的差异。我们发现，相对于白人福音派，拉丁裔和白人天主教徒在各个机构中始终表现出较高的信心水平。我们的研究结果表明，具有相似宗教传统的不同种族和族裔群体在机构信心方面可能比同一种族或族裔但宗教传统不同的群体有更多相似之处。观察到的模式凸显了通过考虑宗教多样性以及种族和族裔群体的交叉视角来审视机构信心的重要性。
