The Accumulation and Transition of the Social Capital in the Community Empowerment：The Case of Sinmin Community in Mingjian Township, Nantou County
| Autor: | Yi-Yun Tsai, 蔡易運 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 Sinmin Community in Mingjian Township, Nantou County has had an unique development experience. The purpose of this study was to explore while Sinmin Community implemented programs from the 921 earthquake to the present, the creation and the influence toward social capital. Analyzing the process of the accumulation and transition of the social capital in Sinmin Community from the perspective of social capital- trust, networks and norms so as to understand how Sinmin Community implemented programs to create social capital, organize social networks, build social norms, construct trust relationship, promote cooperation, encourage community residents participating in public affairs and activities, and achieve the community program’s goals. This study adopted qualitative approach, employing literature analysis, in-depth interview and participative observation as the methods to examine the proposed thesis. According to the results from analyzing Sinmin Community’s literature, in- depth interviewing and participative observing, this study divided the period of its protest activities before the 921 earthquake and empowering process after the 921 earthquake, into three spans of different phases: “1993-1999.9 as accumulation”, “1999.9-2009 as accumulation”, and “2010 to the present as transition”. This division assisted to elucidate the accumulation and the transition of invisible social capital during that period. The significant findings as follows: 1、The supportive elements for social capital accumulation as below: the trust element, which meant the trust relationships were derived from the community leaders’ positive behaviors and practicing the community residents’ goals as well; the networks element, which intended that by implementing programs in order to link the network relationships between the community cadres, residents and external resources; the norms element, which signified that the values were derived from community activities, educational curriculums and daily livings, also from community residents’ common norms, which could fasten the community network relationships, building the trust relationships as well. 2、Promoting the transition of social capital in the community had main reasons: the community leader’s negative behaviors which collapsed the previous trust relationships, destroyed the previous network relationships, and unbalanced the original norms. 3、In sum, social capital has played an integral role during Sinmin Community empowering journal, moreover, trust, networks and norms were the elements which influenced each other, and made community empowering various. |
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