1. Introduction Broadly understood, social capital refers to various types of community relationships that affect individual outcomes. As such, social capital is involved in many of the areas of current social science research where the explicitly social determinants of behavior are fundamental. Since Loury (1977) introduced it into modern social science research and Coleman's (1988) seminal st...

Social capital has been proposed as a potentially important contributor to health, yet most of the existing research tends to ignore the challenge of assessing causality in this relationship. We deal with this issue by employing various instrumental variable estimation techniques. We apply the analysis to a set of nine former Soviet countries, using a unique multi-country household survey speci...

today, we see that despite the plans and decisions made about the historical fabric, the people are very faintly seen and conservation the historic fabric of urban is one of the main concerns management urban in the absence of efficient management and lack of attention to the needs of local people, the historical fabric urban is destroyed. in this article are examined ways other than physical m...

This paper adopts a holistic approach to explain why social capital matters for effective implementation, widespread uptake, greater social inclusion, and the sustainability of CI initiatives. It describes a theoretical framework drawn from diffusion of innovation, community development and social capital theories. The framework emphasises the interplay between physical infrastructure (includin...

BACKGROUND Material circumstances and collective psychosocial processes have been invoked as potential explanations for socioeconomic inequalities in health; and, linking social capital has been proposed as a way of reconciling these apparently opposing explanations. METHODS We conducted multilevel logistic regression of self-rated health (fair or poor vs excellent, very good, or good) on 14 ...

abstract: the objective of this paper is to measure and explain the relationship between facebook users’ social capital and their political participation in real world. following political changes in the world and in the middle east, there are growing interest among researchers to work on political participation and facebook usage. we therefore developed this interest into this research paper i...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurial behavior of strawberry farmers. the study was a descriptive - correlational one. the research population was comprised of the strawberry farmers in the sarvabad city of kordestan (n = 193). sample size, according to kerjcie & morgan table (1970) was determined to be 127 persons, selecte...

While much descriptive research has documented positive associations between social capital and a range of economic, social and health outcomes, there have been few intervention studies to assess whether social capital can be intentionally generated. We conducted an intervention in rural South Africa that combined group-based microfinance with participatory gender and HIV training in an attempt...