The world is changing rapidly, as are the remotest rural communities. Modernity is spreading across the world under the guise of development and it is transforming disaster risk. This raises issues concerning how disaster risk is changing in such milieus. Using a sustainable livelihood approach, this article investigates access to different types of capital that central to the vulnerability of ...

The goal of this paper is to examine whether the use of Facebook in the workplace impacts on employees’ boundary spanning activities (BSA) and social capital. Two types of social capital are examined: bonding and bridging. The sample consisted of 399 full-time white-collar workers in Taiwan. A snowball sampling technique was used to recruit participants to complete an online survey. The results...

Facilitating community engagement in education is promoted and emphasised as an investment strategy (Garlick 2000). However, the responsibility for facilitating university-community engagement rests upon university personnel to initiate collaborations with the community. This paper describes and analyses leadership processes for initiating community engagement with the new Queensland University...

Formal institutions and social capital interact with each other in multiple ways. We argue show empirically at the cross-country level that case of group lending, contract enforcement complements bonding substitutes for bridging one. It means payoff to lending depends on type is contingent quality which serves as a sorting factor, working opposite directions different stripes capital. These res...

Purpose: To better understand adolescent information behaviours in disadvantaged and disengaged circumstances, and explore issues of social integration. Design/methodology: Interdisciplinary theoretical framework bringing together theories of information behaviour with theories of social capital. Mixed method design incorporating observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus group conducte...

The role of education in societal integration has been an recurrent motif in the sociology of education from its inception. Emile Durkheim (1977) in the 19 century was centrally concerned with the functions of education in cultural reproduction and the promotion of social solidarity; Talcott Parsons (1968) in the 20 followed him, designating social integration a primary task of public education...

Religious communities are important sources of bridging and bonding social capital, which, in turn, have varying implications for perceptions of social cohesion in rural areas. In particular, as well as cultivating cohesiveness more broadly, the bridging social capital associated within mainline religious communities may represent an especially important source of support for the social integra...