MEASURING SOCIAL CAPITAL: A NEW APPROACH
MEASURING SOCIAL CAPITAL: A NEW APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: Defining social capital as resources embedded in social networks that can be mobilized by individuals in order to attain their goals, we test an instrument designed to measure it and the relation with classical variables used to assess social capital (trust and civic participation). The instrument was applied on a sample of 855 random subjects, who were interviewed. The data allow the construction of a social capital index, to test its dimensionality and to measure its distribution in population according the socio-demographic variables.

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