An Intra-Ethnic Analysis of Social Affiliations Among Latinos in the United States

摘要: ABSTRACT Certain forms of capital exist in neighborhoods and represent possible resources across various groups that live there. Studies suggest the importance social affiliations to acquire such facilitate neighborhood involvement. However, limited research examines these dynamics for Latinos United States. This study considers relationship between individual-level formal informal ties (religious, kin, friendship, employment), ethnicity, affiliations. Findings based on bivariate logistic regression analyses show that, regardless respondents tend have educational, cultural, church-related People from Puerto Rico Dominican Republic are more likely And although education age engender affiliations, frequent religious attendance Catholicism undermine them.