The notion of social capital has had wide currency in mainstream social policy debate in recent years, with commonly-used definitions emphasising three factors: norms, networks and trust. Yolngu Aboriginal people have their own perspectives on norms, networks and trust relationships. This paper uses concepts from Yolngu philosophy to explore these factors in three contexts: at the former missio...

Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by sharp increases in immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are likely to have important cultural, economic, fiscal, and developmental benefits. In the short run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnica...

BACKGROUND Women new to sex work and those with a greater degree of mobility have higher risk of HIV infection. Using social capital as a theoretical framework, we argue that better understanding of the interactions of micro-level structural factors can be valuable in reshaping and restructuring health promotion programmes in Bali to be more responsive to the concerns and needs of newcomer and ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to explore the association between social capital and self-rated health in different European countries. METHODS For the cross sectional, comparative analyses data from 21 European countries were used. 40,856 people aged 15 years and older were personally interviewed in 2003 (European Social Survey). Perceptions of social trust, and membership, partici...

Abstract In this study , the relationship between investment components in sport and social capital is examined and the population in this research consists of 55 marketing consultant of Iranian soccer league sports sponsors. The research tool is also a questionnaire and for data analysis the statistical software spss and structural equation modeling method graphics Amos were used. In theoret...

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper we contribute to the investiga...

the main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of students' social capital components and entrepreneurship intention. the statistical population of this study consisted of all students of university college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran (n=2600) among which 155 students where accessed based on cochran formula and through convenient sampling. data wer...