scholarly journals The Leader’s Role in Building Religious Social Capital: A Religious Regional Community Leader in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 12(48) (1) ◽  
pp. 33-51
Author(s):  
Witold Jedynak
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Leader ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Religious Social Capital ◽  
Difficult Times

This paper analyses the religious and social efforts of Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk in order to identify his role in the process of generating religious social capital. The research was based on an analysis of available sources and in particular published texts on the Bishop’s pastoral work. It demonstrates that during the difficult times of the communist era, the Bishop of Przemyśl was an unquestioned leader of local communities, who used religious resources to build religious social capital. Bishop Tokarczuk skilfully balanced Catholic bottom-up initiatives and activated local religious communities. His religious and social efforts prepared the ground for building a civil society. The results of Bishop’s social and religious work, which priests and lay Catholics also became involved in were impressive.

scholarly journals Dose religious social capital affect farmland transactions? A spatial autoregressive analysis in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsaiyu Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Village Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Spatial Autoregressive ◽  
Religious Social Capital ◽  
The Village

AbstractThis study aims to empirically determine whether social capital affects farmland transactions in Taiwan. It uses a geographic information system to link the village-level data of the largest national farmland survey with the village-level data of religious groups, which are the most widely distributed civil society organizations. The combined data are analyzed using a spatial self-retrogression model. After controlling for farmland spatial adjacency, an increase in social capital brought an increase in the percentage of active leased farmland and a drop in the percentage of fallow farmland. Analysis of the 2015 cross-sectional data revealed that social capital was strongly conducive to the efficient allocation of farmland resources. While belong to irrigation associations can help to allocate farmland resources (as expected), this allocation is more greatly facilitated by the combination of religion and other traditions. Social capital in Taiwan helped to reduce the density of abandoned farmland, especially Daoist temples in religious communities. This study also used panel data to examine changes in within-village farmland tenancy rates. This analysis found that the identified effects of social capital may decline over time.

scholarly journals Teungku Dayah Agency and Religious Social Capital on Drug Eradication in Aceh, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Nirzalin Nirzalin ◽  
Yogi Febriandi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Religious School ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Social Capital

This article examines the success of religious social capital and the agency of teungku dayah (Islamic scholars who belong to traditional religious school) in the collective drug eradication movement in Ujong Pacu, Lhokseumawe-Aceh, Indonesia. The role of religious social capital in combating the drugs market in global drug policy has been less studied. This study provides a quite different view from most scholars who work for combating drug dealers by engaging participation of religious communities in rural society. The agency of teungku dayah succeeded in mobilizing the villagers due to the social capital that bonded the community based on religious ties. The article used live-in method, observation, in-depth and interviews to build a sociological imagination about  the patterns of social practice of the people who  become  the subject  of the research. The researchers lived in one of the villager’s houses, participated in their discussions, listened to the gossip, worshipped with them and were involved in certain jobs carried out by the community members who targeted informants. Using religious social capital, this article argues that teungku dayah effectively  used  the social and  religious capital  of the Ujong Pacu community to conduct drug eradication. Religious social capital has strong ties in unifying elements of the people in the same religion, moreover it becomes an energy that keeps motivating the community to run anti-drugs movement and driving out the drug addicts in Ujong Pacu, Lhokseumawe-Aceh.

Trust: A National Project

2015 ◽  
pp. 138-146
Author(s):  
N. Rozinskaya ◽  
I. Rozinskiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
National Project ◽  
Low Level ◽  
General Trust

This article deals with the genesis of general trust and social capital in contemporary Russia, which faces the external pressure. The low level of general trust is noted, its economic, social and everyday life implications are considered, an explanation of Russia’s lower than in western Europe level of trust is provided. Considering society’s level of trust and social capital as externalia, the authors conclude that there is a necessity to "produce" trust intentionally. Promotion of collective charity is proposed as a mechanism of such "production". It is stressed that in order to activate the potential of trust in a society, there is a need for ideological and symbolic basis linked to its history. Russian People’s Unity Day, understood as the birthday of Russian civil society, is proposed to be used in this respect.

Social Capital and the Demand for Regulation in Russia

2014 ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Menyashev
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Popular View

There is a popular view in Russian studies arguing that underdevelopment of Russian civil society is partly responsible for the failure of liberal idea in Russia. Fragmented society sees no alternative to massive government regulation, that is why support of strong state is so high. If this logic is true, the differences in civicness across urban societies should show up in liberal parties support. This paper estimates this effect using social capital framework and drawing upon the data from Russian regions.

TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS: A MODEL FOR A GLOBAL MANAGEMENT OF THE TERRITORY

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia ROCCHI ◽  
Adriano CIANI
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Global Management ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
Territorial Management ◽  
Management Contracts

Bottom-up solutions for managing the territory have been increase their importance in the last years. Local communities want to be involved in the management of the territory to avoid problems and to promote economic and social activities. Several different forms of participatory contracts have been developed during the last decades. However, a framework to enforce each single solution are required. The Territorial Management Contracts (TMCs) would like to give a contribute in such a direction. The contribute briefly illustrates the Territorial Management Contracts, to open a debate on them.

scholarly journals Attrition as a bottom-up pathway to subnational democratization

2021 ◽  
pp. 019251212110192
Author(s):  
Trix van Mierlo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Causal Process ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
System A ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Democratic System

Oftentimes, democracy is not spread out evenly over the territory of a country. Instead, pockets of authoritarianism can persist within a democratic system. A growing body of literature questions how such subnational authoritarian enclaves can be democratized. Despite fascinating insights, all existing pathways rely on the actions of elites and are therefore top-down. This article seeks to kick-start the discussion on a bottom-up pathway to subnational democratization, by proposing the attrition mechanism. This mechanism consists of four parts and is the product of abductive inference through theory-building causal process tracing. The building blocks consist of subnational democratization literature, social movement theory, and original empirical data gathered during extensive field research. This case study focuses on the ‘Dynasty Slayer’ in the province of Isabela, the Philippines, where civil society actors used the attrition mechanism to facilitate subnational democratization. This study implies that civil society actors in subnational authoritarian enclaves have agency.

Industrialization, Information Technology and Changes in Social Capital

2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 359-363
Author(s):  
Ai Lin Zheng ◽  
Zhen Sheng Tao
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
General Trust ◽  
The Family

Industrialization, information technology is a process of change of social capital. China's traditional social capital are mainly within the family, we must carry forward the expansion of traditional ethics and trust radius, The formation of the general trust in market economy, civil society organizations to promote the formation of modern social capital. Our government has an important role in formation of social capital.

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