A methodological framework for ascertaining the social capital of environmental community organisations in urban Australia

Dhakal, Subas P

doi:10.1108/ijssp-12-2013-0124

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“…While some accounts of self‐organised voluntary efforts and the mobilisation of community resources through collective action were reported in local and foreign media, coverage of the social capital theme was rather subdued. The very nature of social capital means that the way it is built, maintained, and employed is captured best by collective action and/or the activities of civil society (Dhakal, ). On the one hand, the lack of a greater degree of emphasis on social capital can be attributed to Nepal being a country with already low levels of social capital (Sharma, ).…”

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Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience

Dhakal¹

2017

Disasters

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South Asia is one of the regions of the world most vulnerable to natural disasters. Although news media analyses of disasters have been conducted frequently in various settings globally, there is little research on populous South Asia. This paper begins to fill this gap by evaluating local and foreign news media coverage of the earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015. It broadens the examination of news media coverage of disaster response beyond traditional framing theory, utilising community capitals (built, cultural, financial, human, natural, political, and social) lens to perform a thematic content analysis of 405 news items. Overall, financial and natural capital received the most and the least emphasis respectively. Statistically significant differences between local and foreign news media were detected vis-à-vis built, financial, and political capital. The paper concludes with a discussion of the social utility of news media analysis using the community capitals framework to inform disaster resilience.

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Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience

Dhakal¹

2017

Disasters

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“…The benefits from external SC are access to key external providers of resources [41], reputation [42], investments [43], productivity [44], and so on.…”

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Conflicts and Social Capital in Organizations

Ben‐Hador¹

2018

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Social capital (SC) is a comprehensive concept, which refers to benefits derived from social interaction. In organizations, SC can be divided into 3 levels: personal SC, which refers to the benefits the individual receives from personal social connections, inside and outside the organization; intraorganizational SC, which refers to the benefits derived from good relationships within organizational units, and the organization as a whole; and external SC, which refers to the profits derived from interfaces of role holders, such as the CEO, with stakeholders. Organizational SC and conflicts in an organization are ostensibly very different in nature, whereas SC is an intangible that fits the positive psychology domain; conflicts are usually unwanted occurrences in organizations. Scholars noted that conflicts affect employee's SC and usually reduce it, but the opposite was hardly investigated. This chapter examines how and why the conversion of social relationships into capital can result in conflicts at all organizational SC levels. To do this, the interface between the levels of SC in organizations and types of conflicts was examined. In conclusion, developing "C-type" conflicts, which are desirable conflicts, and avoiding "A-type" conflicts, which are destructive conflicts, depend on a good match between the different organizational SC levels.

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“…Social capital is not a single, straightforward idea, but rather a melting pot which can allow various meanings in many different contexts (Son, 2015). The ambiguities are inevitably related to the measurement issues (Patulny and Lind, 2007;Dhakal, 2014). Indeed, the measurement of social capital is often regarded as the most critical weakness because it is problematic on the conceptual as well as empirical levels (Fukuyama, 2000).…”

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Sense of belonging as an indicator of social capital

Ahn

Davis

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThis paper examines the possibility of using sense of belonging as an indicator for social capital. Social capital, from the collective social capital theory perspective, is constructed from three main elements: trust, social network and participation. Social capital is crucial to civil society and well-being, but there is no consensus on how to define and measure it. This paper approaches this problem with the different but related concept of sense of belonging, as belonging overlaps with social capital conceptually, but also is more amenable to measurement.Design/methodology/approachQualitative and quantitative data was collected from approximately 800 university students and used to explore the relationship between belonging and social capital both conceptually and empirically in the higher education context.FindingsThe mixed methods research analysis in this paper provides strong evidence to show how sense of belonging and social capital are theoretically and empirically intertwined, Conceptually they occupy overlapping spheres and their connections can be clearly traced and measured. This is supported by substantial statistical evidence of their relatedness, despite their independent origins in social research. For these reasons, this paper argues that sense of belonging can be used as a simplified alternative way to measure social capital.Originality/valueThis paper explains the advantages of using sense of belonging to understand social capital. It sets out a conceptual framework and provides a statistical demonstration. This paper develops and enriches a current strand of social capital and sense of belonging research in the fields of sociology and higher education policy.

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A methodological framework for ascertaining the social capital of environmental community organisations in urban Australia

Cited by 9 publications

References 61 publications

Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience

Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience

Conflicts and Social Capital in Organizations

Sense of belonging as an indicator of social capital

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