Social Capital

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
High Risk Behavior ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Capital Growth ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

In social work, social capital is linked to both the prevention and treatment of mental and physical health. This concept has also been incorporated in the development of empowering interventions with marginalized minorities. The capacity-based and the youth development models of intervention, both call on social service organizations to work interdependently around meeting the needs for the human and social capital growth of youth (Morrison, Alcorn, & Nelums 1997). Social capital is also a feature of empowering interventions in neighborhoods and community development, as is collective efficacy, which is a measure of working trust that exists among residents and has been popularized as a way to stop youth high-risk behavior.

Development of a collective efficacy measure for use in social service organizations

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Patras ◽  
Sihu K Klest
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Child Psychiatric ◽  
Efficacy Measure ◽  
Item Scale

• Summary: The present study summarizes the development of a collective efficacy measure for use in social service organizations: The Collective Efficacy Measure for Social Services (CEMSS). The measure was adapted from Goddard's Collective Efficacy Scale (2002). Factorial validity was assessed for a sample of 278 respondents employed at child welfare and child psychiatric agencies across Norway. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted with a random split-half sample of 139 respondents; the second random split-half sample ( n = 139) was tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Tests for construct validity were conducted using Teamwork, Leadership, and Organizational Culture subscales from the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation Questionnaire (ROLE; Preskill & Torres, 1999). • Findings: A six-item scale was identified in the first sample using EFA. The CFA conducted with the second sample, indicated good model fit, χ2(10) = 14.34, p = .16; CFI = .97; RMSEA = .06. Scale reliability for the entire sample was adequate (α = .74). As expected, the six-item scale was significantly correlated with Teamwork, r(250) = .34, p < .01; Leadership, r(273) = .36, p < .01; and Organizational Culture, r(276) = .41, p < .01. • Applications: The results of the analyses support the use of the CEMSS as a valid measure of collective efficacy. This measure has a variety of possible applications for organizational assessment and research in social service agencies.

Ethnic niching in a segmented labour market: Evidence from Spain

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikolaj Stanek ◽  
Alberto Veira
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Human And Social Capital

Using the Spanish National Immigrant Survey (NIS-2007) we identify the ethnic niches where workers from five main immigrant communities concentrate. We then implement logit models in order to assess how structural factors and human and social capital variables affect the odds of working in these niches. We observe that the strong segmentation of the Spanish labour market strongly favours the concentration of immigrants in certain occupational niches. Nevertheless, variables related to human and social capital still play a significant role in the placement of immigrant workers in different niches, all of which are not equally attractive. 

A successful person, society and civic activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1800-1816
Author(s):  
G.B. Kozyreva ◽  
T.V. Morozova ◽  
R.V. Belaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Person Model ◽  
Social Disparity

Subject. The article provides considerations on the formation and development of a successful person model in the modern Russian society. Objectives. The study is an attempt to model a successful person in the Russian society, when the ideological subsystem of the institutional matrix is changing. Methods. The study relies upon the theory of institutional matrices by S. Kirdina, theories of human and social capital. We focus on the assumption viewing a person as a carrier of social capital, which conveys a success, socio-economic position, social status, civic activism, doing good to your family and the public, confidence in people and association with your region. The empirical framework comprises data of the sociological survey of the Russian population in 2018. The data were processed through the factor analysis. Results. We devised a model of a successful person in today's Russian society, which reveals that a success, first of all, depends on the economic wellbeing and has little relation to civic activism. The potential involvement (intention, possibility, preparedness) in the social and political life significantly dominates the real engagement of people. The success has a frail correlation with constituents of the social capital, such as confidence in people and doing good to the public. Conclusions and Relevance. Based on the socio-economic wellbeing, that is consumption, the existing model of a successful person proves to be ineffective. The sustainability of socio-economic wellbeing seriously contributes to the social disparity of opportunities, which drive a contemporary Russian to a success in life.

University Graduates’ Employability, Employment Status, and Job Quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente González-Romá ◽  
Juan Pablo Gamboa ◽  
José M. Peiró
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Hierarchical Level ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Career Identity ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
The University

We investigated whether a set of indicators of the employability dimensions proposed by Fugate, Kinicki, and Asforth (i.e., career identity, personal adaptability, and human and social capital) are related to university graduates’ employment status and five indicators of the quality of their jobs (pay, hierarchical level, vertical and horizontal match, and job satisfaction). We analyzed a representative sample of university graduates ( N = 7,881) from the population of graduates who obtained their degree from the University of Valencia in the period 2006–2010. The results showed that indicators of human and social capital were related to employment status, whereas indicators of human and social capital and career identity were related to distinct job quality indicators. These results support the validity of the conceptual model proposed by Fugate et al. to investigate employability in samples of university graduates.

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