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- Isabelle Parizot
(INSERM U707)
- Jean-Michel Wachsberger
(DIAL, Lasmas, Gracc)
Abstract
Informal social support contributes in different ways to individuals’ social integration and to poverty reduction. This article makes a comparison between Antananarivo and Paris. The data is taken from a survey carried out as part of a multidisciplinary international research programme, “Health, Inequalities and Social Rupture”. The same questionnaire was used in Antananarivo, with a representative sample of 2 807 households, and in two areas of Paris, with a random sample of 889 households. The study details the aid received by individuals in the previous six months and that given to others during the same period, and identifies three spheres of social support: family, friends and neighbours. The results underline that the different aids exchanged are not distributed randomly but form a system, which has a different structure in the two capitals studied. They also show that there is a risk of social support accentuating inequalities, given that those who most lack financial resources (in Antananarivo) or cultural resources (in Paris) benefit less often than others from informal mutual aid. Finally, the results indicate the importance of the individuals’ relative position in the system of aid: in particular, people who neither give nor receive any aid at all are in a much more favourable psychological position (measured in terms of self-esteem) than those who receive aid without being able to return it. _________________________________ Le soutien social informel participe de différentes façons à l’intégration sociale des individus et à la réduction de la pauvreté. Cet article adopte une perspective comparative entre Antananarivo et Paris. Les données sont issues d’une enquête menée dans le cadre d’un programme de recherche international pluridisciplinaire intitulé « Santé, Inégalités et Ruptures Sociales ». Un même questionnaire a été passé à Antananarivo auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de 2 807 ménages et dans deux quartiers parisiens auprès d’un échantillon aléatoire de 889 ménages. L’analyse distingue l’aide que les individus ont reçue au cours des six derniers mois et celle qu’ils ont donnée à autrui pendant la même période, et identifie trois sphères de soutien social : la famille, les amis et les voisins. Les résultats soulignent que les différentes aides échangées ne sont pas distribuées aléatoirement mais qu’elles forment un système dont la structure diffère entre les deux capitales étudiées. Ils font aussi apparaître que le soutien social risque d’accentuer les inégalités dans la mesure où les plus démunis en ressources financières (à Antananarivo) ou culturelles (à Paris) bénéficient moins souvent que les autres de l’entraide informelle. Ils indiquent enfin l’importance de la position relative des individus dans le système de l’aide : en particulier, ceux qui ne reçoivent ni ne dispensent aucune aide sont dans une position psychologique (mesurée par l’estime de soi) nettement plus favorable que ceux qui reçoivent sans pouvoir rendre.
Suggested Citation
Isabelle Parizot & Jean-Michel Wachsberger, 2005.
"Aider et être aidé : système et structure du soutien social informel à Antananarivo (Madagascar) et à Paris (France),"
Working Papers
DT/2005/09, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
Handle:
RePEc:dia:wpaper:dt200509
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