What Is Social Capital? A Study of Interaction in a Rural Community. CRLRA Discussion Paper Series.

Autor/inn/en	Falk, Ian; Kilpatrick, Sue
Institution	Tasmania Univ., Launceston (Australia). Center for Research and Learning in Regional Australia.
Titel	What Is Social Capital? A Study of Interaction in a Rural Community. CRLRA Discussion Paper Series.
Quelle	(1999), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Community Relations; Community Resources; Foreign Countries; Group Dynamics; Informal Education; Interpersonal Relationship; Learning Experience; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Social Capital; Social Environment; Social Networks; Trust (Psychology); Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausland; Gruppendynamik; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Lernerfahrung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Sozialkapital; Soziales Umfeld; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Australien
Abstract	A case study in a rural Australian township sought to determine the nature of the interactive productivity between the local networks in a community. Participants were chosen based on recommendations of community members concerning to whom they turn for help, advice, or information. Community interactivity was recorded using interviews, tape-recorded community meetings and interactions, and personal diaries. Findings indicate that informal learning is an important factor in the formation of social capital and that there are two categories of resources upon which people draw as they interact with each other. The first is knowledge resources, which comprise the common knowledge base of community, personal, individual, and collective information. These include knowledge of the skills, knowledge, and affective attributes of other community members, and knowledge of the common physical resources of the community. The second is identity resources, which are the common understandings of personal, individual, and collective identities, categorized as social and civic identities. Formation of social capital depends on sufficient numbers of interactions in which members foster each others' learning by sharing knowledge resources, build each others' self-confidence or encourage positive identity shifts in each other, and exhibit trust. It was also found that microinteractive processes have the capacity to link with meso and macro social, civic, and economic outcomes. (Contains 64 references.) (TD)
Anmerkungen	Full text at Web site: http://www.crlra.utas.edu.au.
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