Measurement of Social Participation and its Place in Social Capital Theory |
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Authors: | Laura Guillen Lluis Coromina Willem E Saris |
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Institution: | 1.INSEAD Global Leadership Centre, INSEAD,Fontainebleau Cedex,France;2.Department of Economics,University of Girona,Girona,Spain;3.Research & Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, Department of Political and Social Sciences,Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona,Spain |
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Abstract: | The concept of social capital has become very popular but its definition and measurement are still rather unclear. We frame
our study in one of its components, social participation. In this article we develop an optimal measure for social participation
based on the questions asked in the first round of the European Social Survey. Our analyses suggest that a distinction has
to be made between informal and formal participation because they relate very differently to other variables such as age,
education, political action and happiness. We also found that these two types of participation had hardly any relationship
with other important components of the social capital construct, such as social trust and political trust. The latter result
does not devalue the validity of the developed indices for informal and formal participation but suggests that participation
and trust should be considered formative indicators of social capital. |
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