Theory
The article "Public opinion, prejudice and the racialization of welfare in Canada " written by Allison Harrel, Stuart Soroka and Kiera Ladner, explains the role of race as a limiting factor for social welfare support. The authors base their ideas on examples of racialization in the United States, where "social assistance programmes"(1) are commonly associated with specific groups, or vulnerable factions of the population, in this particular case poor blacks, in a negative connotation. The authors decided to develop their own theories with the attempt of finding further evidence on racialized attitudes towards this type of government aid in Canada. For this purpose, one of the theories pertinent to this research is: “...at least among …show more content…
This theory connects the idea of having an unfavourable bias towards Aboriginals with the decline of welfare support when this group in particular is being favoured.
Hypotheses
The most relevant hypotheses in accordance to the theory tested in this article are the ones presented in the data and methods analyzed. The first hypothesis: “As with blacks in the USA, there are good reasons to expect that cuing Aboriginal recipients has a negative influence on welfare support”(7), includes motives precisely explained before the data analysis “Aboriginal people’s association with poverty, both objectively and in the larger discourse of a culture of dependency, creates a situation where we expect public opinion towards social assistance to be racialized, that is influenced by group-based schemas and biases.”(6) The second hypothesis suggests that this behaviour would be mostly common amongst people who already hold a negative judgement towards recipients as stated in …show more content…
Personally, I do not think it is possible to rule out the possibility that y causes x, because as also explained in the article “Indigenous people are statistically over-represented in all indicators of social well-being (such as unemployment, poverty and children in protective care)”(4-5), the welfare support system itself might be causing the bias amongst certain groups of a population. While it is true that certain groups are more likely to face certain types of challenges, “The RCAP notes that welfare dependence among Aboriginal people is two to four times higher than for Canadians more generally.”(5) There is a bivariation between x and y, where more negative attitudes towards Aboriginal people cause less participants to support social welfare benefits. There are confounding variables, which the authors control in Model 2,
The article "Public opinion, prejudice and the racialization of welfare in Canada " written by Allison Harrel, Stuart Soroka and Kiera Ladner, explains the role of race as a limiting factor for social welfare support. The authors base their ideas on examples of racialization in the United States, where "social assistance programmes"(1) are commonly associated with specific groups, or vulnerable factions of the population, in this particular case poor blacks, in a negative connotation. The authors decided to develop their own theories with the attempt of finding further evidence on racialized attitudes towards this type of government aid in Canada. For this purpose, one of the theories pertinent to this research is: “...at least among …show more content…
This theory connects the idea of having an unfavourable bias towards Aboriginals with the decline of welfare support when this group in particular is being favoured.
Hypotheses
The most relevant hypotheses in accordance to the theory tested in this article are the ones presented in the data and methods analyzed. The first hypothesis: “As with blacks in the USA, there are good reasons to expect that cuing Aboriginal recipients has a negative influence on welfare support”(7), includes motives precisely explained before the data analysis “Aboriginal people’s association with poverty, both objectively and in the larger discourse of a culture of dependency, creates a situation where we expect public opinion towards social assistance to be racialized, that is influenced by group-based schemas and biases.”(6) The second hypothesis suggests that this behaviour would be mostly common amongst people who already hold a negative judgement towards recipients as stated in …show more content…
Personally, I do not think it is possible to rule out the possibility that y causes x, because as also explained in the article “Indigenous people are statistically over-represented in all indicators of social well-being (such as unemployment, poverty and children in protective care)”(4-5), the welfare support system itself might be causing the bias amongst certain groups of a population. While it is true that certain groups are more likely to face certain types of challenges, “The RCAP notes that welfare dependence among Aboriginal people is two to four times higher than for Canadians more generally.”(5) There is a bivariation between x and y, where more negative attitudes towards Aboriginal people cause less participants to support social welfare benefits. There are confounding variables, which the authors control in Model 2,