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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Community social capital"”.
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School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools
… in the availability and accessibility of community social capital resources to the elementary schools. Using geospatial research methods, the researcher created three service area models for each elementary school to access community social capital resources that are available within its …
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An investigation into emerging social relations among rural young people : the relationship between social networking and individual, family and community social capital
… becoming familiar with new technologies such as social networking. This has resulted in a reliance on the internet to create and sustain friendships. These online networks can comprise of many members and among teenagers frequently range from several hundred to over at house and online friends. …
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Exploration of Communicative Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Engagement of the Korean Diaspora
… the Washington, DC, area make meaning of ethnic community, social capital, and civic and political engagement. More specifically, the study examined how communicative social capital influences civic and political engagement as well as other factors that influence or inhibit civic and political …
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Social Capital and Adolescent Student At-Risk Behaviors
… of adolescent students in relation to levels of social capital of 9–12 grade students. Data were gathered from the Youth Risk and Protective Factors Survey (YRPFS), administered to ninth through twelfth grade students in a school district located in a medium size midwest city. Factor analysis …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Production: Using Neoclassical economic theory and modern estimation techniques to measure the impact of socially conscious activities on firm output
… investigates the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm production by using a neoclassical production function and modern estimation techniques. Although the impact of CSR on firm performance has been studied in the past, the results have been mixed, with some studies …
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An analysis of nonprofit board interlock networks
… of civic infrastructure in cities, creating social capital through their networked relations with each other. One such network is that of board interlocks, which occur when people serve on multiple boards of directors. In this thesis, I investigate the structures of these board interlock …
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Creating community connections : sociocultural constructionism and an asset-based approach to community technology and community building
… the early results of the project in the areas of community social capital and community cultural capital, based on quantitative and qualitative data resulting from direct observation, surveys, interviews, server logs, and case studies. These findings included expanded local ties, a heightened …
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The Predictive Accuracy of Family and Community Demographic Factors on the 2011, 2012, and 2013, Grade 6 Connecticut Mastery Test
… demographic variables, grouped by family human capital and community social capital, to predict the percentage of students in Grade 6 who scored at or above Goal, the district level, on the CMT. The study examined 130 school districts in Connecticut who took the CMT in Grades 6 during the 2011, …
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Town and Country: Community Context and the Development and Maintenance of Social Capital Among Rural Older Adults. A Controlled Comparison
… show that while older adults in the growth community lack ""sense of community"" and ""feeling of importance"" in community activities and affairs, they have maintained a strong sense of belonging among other older, long-term residents. The results with respect to various dimensions of …
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Religion and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents
… some studies show that this is due to family and community factors; for example, variation in levels of family capital among religious affiliates may explain this association. Yet, whether religious factors affect academic achievement among adolescents may also be due to the concordance or …
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Predicting New Jersey High School Proficiency Test Results in Mathematics and Language Arts Using Community Demographic Data
… and school level data related to family human capital and community social capital found in the extant literature to influence student achievement on high-stakes standardized assessments. School level data included percentage of families in poverty for 12 months, percentage of lone-parent …
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Interactions between community traditions and geospatial technology in natural resource management: case studies from common property regimes in rural southern Mexico
Issues related to improving community participation and the effectiveness of green economy instruments are central to current debates regarding progress towards sustainable development. Information technology, such as Geographic Information Systems, may be able to play an important role in …
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Social Capital and Mental Health among Chinese Older Adults
… study aims to develop our understanding of social capital by exploring the dimensions and profiles of social capital among Chinese older adults and the factors and health conditions associated with social capital in later life. The approach was secondary analyses of the China Family Panel …
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A Case Study Considering Impacts of Active Membership in the Young Professionals Networking Group on Sense of Community and Social Capital
<p>Sense of community, social capital, and emerging adulthood are all topics of increasing interest in multiple fields over the past three decades. Both sense of community and social capital are predictors of overall well-being for individuals and communities. As emerging adults begin to establish …
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Adolescents' Social Capital Resources, Future Life Expectations, and Subsequent Citizenship Participation as Young Adults
… post high school using Putnam's (1993) theory of social capital are tested. This study uses a longitudinal database. Specifically, the models posit that accumulation of more social capital resources during adolescence will be associated with more positive future life expectations related to …
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Food Security, Climate Change, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Nepal
… Findings also highlight the importance of community social capital, coping strategies (i.e., remittance, access to credit, and government support), infrastructure, and agricultural income. The second study uses a Stochastic Frontier Production Model to examine the spatial effects of extreme …
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The Potential of Watershed Development for Enhancing Agricultural Livelihood: Three Essays from the Semi-arid Regions of India
… micro-watersheds are based on the principles of community based natural resource management. However, the irrigation access (wells) to this common pool resource of groundwater is privately and individually owned which deters effective monitoring of resource use through collective action. This …
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Selected Econometric Models of Social Capital Formation in New Zealand
… the factors contributing to the formation of social capital in New Zealand from three distinct angles. Each of these angles concerns a form of geographically referenced investment, either by individuals through settlement post-migration or their homeownership, or by local government investing …
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Health-related Quality of Life in the Community // Качество на живот, свързано със здравето в общността
… quality of life" (HrQoL) , "health promotion", "community" and "social capital"(SC) and applies them to the Bulgarian environment. The research did not identify any study in Bulgaria which has investigated the HrQoL of the general population, neither of a sub-population at a community level. The …
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