Social capital and social inequalities

• Authors: Theiss M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper offers an insight into a quantitative part of authoress' empirical research on social capital in Poland. The presented research was conducted in two small Polish towns of similar population and living standard, however differing significantly in local tradition and immigration level after the Second World War. The first part of the article presents the toll used in survey, designed to measure and compare multidimensional asset of household's social capital. In the second part the correlations with independent variables (that is socio-economic status and respondent's education level) are discussed. The third part of the paper analyses the gains from social capital in the sphere of household incomes (in broad sense). The survey's main finding is the strong correlation between different types of social capital, as well as between good household's economic and educational situation and a high level of social capital. Combining these findings with qualitative study in two researched towns, worrying effects of social capital are to be seen. Both, productive asset and the correlated above mentioned independent variables of the social capital, tend to reinforce social inequalities in the researched towns. On the local community level the exclusive and inward-looking groups of 'social capital bourgeoisie' were observed. The authoress claims that changing this negative tendency is a challenge to local social policy in Poland.

Keywords

EN

LOCAL SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Polityki Społecznej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 113-127
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Theiss M.

• M. Theiss, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Polityki Spolecznej, ul. Nowy Swiat 69, 00-046 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02204647