title: Different effects of ethnic diversity on social capital: density of foundations and leisure associations in Amsterdam neighbourhoods.
abstract: This article examines the effect of ethnic diversity on social capital in Amsterdam neighbourhoods by looking at the effects of the ethnic diversity of a neighbourhood on the social networks that underpin civil society. A distinction is made between homogeneous, more individually oriented social networks, on the one hand, and horizontal heterogeneous networks on the other. The density of foundations—i.e. the number of foundations in a neighbourhood—is used as the indicator for the first type of networks and the density of leisure associations for the latter type. In addition, the study looks at the effect of a changing context in Amsterdam in which ethnic diversity has increasingly come to be perceived as problematic by inhabitants and local politicians. The results indeed show that ethnic diversity has a different effect on both forms of civil society: the horizontal heterogeneous networks suffer more from ethnic diversity than the homogeneous networks.
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Floris
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vermeulen
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tillie
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van de Walle
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology; D009426:Netherlands / Q000208:ethnology; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000266:history; D012919:Social Behavior / Q000266:history; D060756:Social Networking / Q000266:history