Ties that Bind (and Social Distance): How Social Capital Helps Communities Weather the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Makridis ◽  
Cary Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Distance

Learning Together

2012 ◽  
pp. 782-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Kevany
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
Learning Factors ◽  
Directed Distance ◽  
Learning Together

Creatively fostering peer-to-peer (P2P) learning reduces the distance in distance education. E-learners become teachers and learners through animated, adult oriented, self-directed distance education. Ways to mitigate social distance are discussed as are ways to enhance social capital through P2P learning. Factors that increase success in P2P e-learning are unencumbered connectivity, adult oriented facilitation, increased criticality, and learning collaboratively. The dynamic roles of learners, facilitators, and administrators are articulated along with plans for future environments conducive to learning and change. The concept onisagogy, meaning “together learning” is introduced as an approach to accelerate learning, increase satisfaction, and reduce social distance.

scholarly journals “We’re in This Together”: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Elementary School PTOs

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 2210-2244
Author(s):  
Brittany Murray ◽  
Thurston Domina ◽  
Amy Petts ◽  
Linda Renzulli ◽  
Rebecca Boylan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Inclusive Schools ◽  
Multiple Case

Scholarship on the links between families and schools encompasses contradictory notions about social capital and its relation to inequality. One view holds that schools can narrow inequality by generating dense relationships among families, while others suggest that advantaged parents can use these networks to hoard opportunities. This multiple case study analyzes qualitative data from diverse North Carolina elementary schools to learn how parents build and deploy social capital. We distinguish between bonding social capital, built in dense, homogeneous networks, and bridging social capital, gained through relationships across a social distance. Our analyses suggest that bonding alone is associated with opportunity hoarding; however, when schools are committed to building both bridging and bonding social capital, they can produce more equitable and inclusive schools.

Mapping social remittances

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Boccagni ◽  
Francesca Decimo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Peripheral Vein ◽  
Social Remittances

The notion of social remittances has gained a central position, discursively at least, in the literature on the effects of emigration on home societies. In this editorial we briefly review the strengths and limitations that this concept has displayed, since its early coinage in transnational migration studies. More of-ten than not, social remittances have been treated in the literature in a peripheral vein, ancillary to different foci of research. This Migration Letters special issue aims to move the debate on the theme beyond this unsatisfactory state of things. More specifically, we argue for four lines of research on social remittances to be further developed: the tensions between individualization and home-society based obligations and pressures, which shape the development and circulation of social remittances; the need to explore the embeddedness of economic remittances within a broader range of socio-cultural remittances (rather than vice versa); the interfaces between the categories of social remittances and social capital; the complex ways in which physical and social distance between senders and recipients affects the circulation of social remittances, as well as their impact on migrants' communities of origin.

Bypassing the Social Distance: International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 80-105
Author(s):  
Milan Fujda ◽  
Michaela Ondrašinová ◽  
Miroslav Vrzal
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

Abstract We analyze the role of intimate social ties and community in the processes of homemaking and social integration of highly skilled migrants who are members of the local international Catholic community in Brno, Czech Republic. We use the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital developed by Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge and follow their attention to the effects of the worship communities’ organizational culture on migrants’ integration. In the article, we show that the Catholic community mediates its members’ homemaking efficiently by providing them with rich bonding social capital, generated through close social ties in the community. However, it does not provide them with enough bridging social capital, and their social integration, thus, remains restricted to the company of international fellows. We compare it with the strategies of homemaking used by settling migrants who have integrated more successfully into the Czech social environment.

Seeing Similarity or Distance?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Wilton ◽  
Diana T. Sanchez ◽  
Lisa Giamo
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intergroup Perception ◽  
Intergroup Perceptions ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Biracial individuals threaten the distinctiveness of racial groups because they have mixed-race ancestry, but recent findings suggest that exposure to biracial-labeled, racially ambiguous faces may positively influence intergroup perception by reducing essentialist thinking among Whites ( Young, Sanchez, & Wilton, 2013 ). However, biracial exposure may not lead to positive intergroup perceptions for Whites who are highly racially identified and thus motivated to preserve the social distance between racial groups. We exposed Whites to racially ambiguous Asian/White biracial faces and measured the perceived similarity between Asians and Whites. We found that exposure to racially ambiguous, biracial-labeled targets may improve perceptions of intergroup similarity, but only for Whites who are less racially identified. Results are discussed in terms of motivated intergroup perception.

Replication of Experiments Evaluating Impact of Psychological Distance on Moral Judgment

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris L. Žeželj ◽  
Biljana R. Jokić
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Systematic Effect ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Opposite Conclusion ◽  
Moral Transgressions ◽  
Replication Of Experiments

Eyal, Liberman, and Trope (2008) established that people judged moral transgressions more harshly and virtuous acts more positively when the acts were psychologically distant than close. In a series of conceptual and direct replications, Gong and Medin (2012) came to the opposite conclusion. Attempting to resolve these inconsistencies, we conducted four high-powered replication studies in which we varied temporal distance (Studies 1 and 3), social distance (Study 2) or construal level (Study 4), and registered their impact on moral judgment. We found no systematic effect of temporal distance, the effect of social distance consistent with Eyal et al., and the reversed effect of direct construal level manipulation, consistent with Gong and Medin. Possible explanations for the incompatible results are discussed.

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