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  1. Transforming Individual Civic Engagement into Community Collective Efficacy: The Role of Bonding Social Capital

    Charles R. Collins, Jennifer Watling Neal, Zachary P. Neal · 2014 · American Journal of Community Psychology · 156 citations

    Collective efficacy is defined as residents' perceived collective capacity to take coordinated and interdependent action on issues that affect their lives. This study explored factors associated with neighborhood collective efficacy among residents. Utilizing a national sample of 4,120 urban households provided by Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connection Initiative, we investigated the mediating role of residents' perceptions of bonding social capital (i.e. reciprocity, trust, and shared norms) in the association between civic engagement and collective efficacy. Multiple regression analyses revealed that civic engagement and bonding social capital were both directly related to collectiv

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  2. Social Capital and Health: Civic Engagement, Community Size, and Recall of Health Messages

    Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Whitney Randolph Steele, John R. Finnegan · 2006 · American Journal of Public Health · 148 citations

    OBJECTIVES: We explored the effects of community integration and pluralism on recall of cardiovascular disease health information messages. METHODS: With 1980-1983 data from the Minnesota Heart Health Program, we examined whether ties to community groups were associated with recall of health messages, and whether this relation was modified by size and degree of differentiation of the community. RESULTS: A higher level of civic engagement through ties to community groups was associated with better recall of health messages. Ties to community groups independently contributed to better message recall even after control for gender, education, and other variables. The moderating role of community

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  3. Exploring Social Capital and Civic Engagement to Create a Framework for Community Building

    James B. Hyman · 2002 · Applied Developmental Science · 84 citations

    Community building is emerging as an increasingly important intervention strategy for neighborhood revitalization efforts across the country. This article proposes a framework that models 5 components that the author argues comprise the community building process: resident engagement, agenda building, community organizing, community action, and communications and message development. The article is intended to make community building more comprehensible as a field of work and study and more replicable as an intervention strategy.

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  4. Connections and Disconnections Between Civic Engagement and Social Capital in Community-Based Nonprofits

    Jo Anne Schneider · 2007 · Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly · 66 citations

    Using case examples from Kenosha, Wisconsin, and metropolitan Washington, D.C., this article examines the relationship between social capital and civic engagement. Clarifying the differences and connections between the two concepts through comparing emergency-services organizations in the two communities, the article identifies three kinds of organizations where civic engagement and social capital function differently: citywide civic-engagement organizations, community-based civic institutions, and social-capital organizations. Analysis of the three organization types reveals that social capital and civic engagement are not always intertwined and that civic engagement through contributing to

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  5. Community leadership development education: promoting civic engagement through human and social capital

    Godwin Apaliyah, Kenneth E. Martin, Stephen Philip Gasteyer, et al. · 2012 · Community Development · 59 citations

    Community leadership development education (CLDE) programs are designed to increase the capacity of individuals as leaders in their communities as well as increase the capacity of community leadership as a whole. These programs contribute to building a critical mass of individuals in the community by developing their leadership skills and knowledge to be effective leaders. However, there is little research that connects characteristics of individual leadership skills to increased capacity for community development. The article addresses this by looking at how CLDE programs contribute to building and enhancing the human capital and social capital of program participants and how these benefits

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  6. Developing social capital: a role for music education and community music in fostering civic engagement and intercultural understanding

    Patrick M Jones · 2010 · International Journal of Community Music · 45 citations

    This article posits that musicking can uniquely foster the development of social capital, which leads to civic engagement and intercultural understanding. I review pertinent literature and build a case that music educators and community musicians have a unique role to play in its development. I also reveal a weakness in the theoretical framework of social capital and in the music research literature, and I advocate for developing a richer theoretical framework that analyses both the development of social capital and the unique civic roles, social skills, habits and dispositions developed in various musical practices.

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  8. Faith communities, communitarianism, social capital and youth civic engagement

    John Annette · 2011 · Ethnicities · 18 citations

    In this article I will examine the changing nature of faith-based community action in England and consider what evidence we have about the extent and diversity of such forms of community action. I will also analyse the current government policy toward faith-based community action and the continuum of policy initiatives from community cohesion to prevention of terrorism. Having done this I will look specifically at what we know about the role of youth civic engagement in relationship to faith identity and faith-based community politics. This will be seen in the context of a shift from encouraging youth volunteering, which followed from the Russell Commission Report, to the new emphasis on you

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  9. Social Capital and Community Building: Part Two

    Allan Wallis · 1998 · National Civic Review · 18 citations

    Part One (NCR Vol. 87, No. 3) presented three perspectives on the idea of social capital: the points of view of academicians, advocates, and grantmakers. Part Two begins with a fourth perspective on social capital, that of practitioners working in communities. The article concludes by considering how empowerment evaluation can be used as a way of bringing these four perspectives together to advance formation of social capital in support of effective community building.

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  11. Industrial Pollution, Social Trust, and Civic Engagement: A Nationwide Study of the Socioenvironmental Nature of Social Capital

    Phylicia Lee Brown · 2022 · Sociological Perspectives · 10 citations

    I conduct a nationwide investigation of the relationship that toxic industrial pollution and the facilities that produce it have with trust and civic engagement within communities. Data on pollution exposure come from the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Geographic Microdata (RSEI-GM) and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data sets for the years 1995 to 1999. Data on trust and civic engagement come from the 2000 restricted-access Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (SCCBS). Statistical analyses provide strong support for Freudenburg and Jones’ conceptualization of corrosive communities and indicate that exposures to more toxic air pollution associate negatively with various measures

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  12. Community gardens and the cultivation of social capital.

    Chiara D’Amore, Loni Cohen, Justin Chen, et al. · 2025 · Current opinion in psychology · 8 citations

    Community gardens are shared green spaces that provide more than produce-they foster psychological resilience, social connectedness, and civic engagement. This article synthesizes findings from 50 recent studies on community gardens, applying social capital theory to examine their multifaceted social benefits. Through the mechanisms of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital, community gardens enhance psychological well-being, promote inclusive social networks, and cultivate empathy and civic participation. Drawing on both empirical literature and the authors' community-based experiences, the article underscores the potential of community gardens to support individual wellness and comm

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  16. Does More Social Capital Always Mean More Civic Engagement? The Role of Varying Levels of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital in the Development of Community and Political Civic Engagement amongPakistani University Students

    Faiqa Seemab, Mubbsher Abbas · 2024 · Kurdish Studies · 2 citations

    This study investigates whether higher levels of bonding social capital, bridging social capital, or a combination of both, are linked to increase the participation in both community and political civic engagement. The research used a quantitative design. Multistage sampling was used to select the sample of 788 students from three universities in Lahore, Pakistan. Analysis of covariance showed that both bonding and bridging social capital, independently and together, significantly predicted higher levels of community civic engagement. While both bonding and bridging social capital separately predicted increased political civic engagement, the combination of high levels of both types of socia

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  19. Measuring the community dream: A social capital lens of capacity building initiatives

    T. Hernandez, M. Berardi · 2024 · Local Development & Society · 2 citations

    ABSTRACT In 2010, San Antonio leaders sought to leverage networks and collective action to create a future in which each resident was responsible to the whole community in helping to reach a shared vision for 2020 to become a world-class city. In doing so, city administrators applied social capital theories to utilize the active networks in a social capital-rich community, which creates a wider capacity for dynamic actions and more opportunity for community practitioners to meet development goals. This case study compiles secondary sources from publicly distributed data sets, utilizing data mining techniques and social network analysis to describe community capacity building outcomes. This c

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  21. AMBIVALENCE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL: FROM SMUGGLING TO CIVIC PARTICIPATION

    D. Afanasiev, Serhii Roman · 2025 · Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Series: «Pedagogy. Social Work» · 1 citations

    The article explores the ambivalent nature of social capital within the context of borderland practices, where it simultaneously functions as a resource for sustaining illegal activities, particularly smuggling, and as a mechanism for mobilizing civic participation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective, the paper examines how horizontal networks of trust, reciprocity, and solidarity in border communities create favorable conditions for the reproduction of informal economic practices, legitimizing smuggling as a socially acceptable form of economic behavior. At the same time, it is emphasized that these very networks, under conditions of institutional support and effective community en

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  22. Civic engagement and social cohesion as drivers of recovery and development in de-occupied territories

    Oleh Dibrova, T. Liakh · 2024 · Social pedagogy: theory and practice · 1 citations

    Civic engagement and social cohesion are key interrelated factors for the recovery of de-occupied territories. Civic engagement is manifested through volunteering, participation in local self-government, and social initiatives that contribute to resource mobilization, improved governance, and human capital development. Social cohesion is based on trust, inclusion, and shared values, which reduce conflicts, ensure equal access to resources, and strengthen community unity. Their synergy is expressed in community-state cooperation, environmental initiatives, and cultural integration, which provide long-term stability and development. The authors of the article attempt to study the interconnecti

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  23. Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Times Of Tension: An Evidence from Interethnic Relation Developed in Stella Maris Credit Union Pontianak, West Kalimantan

    Alanuari Alanuari, M. I. Ahnaf · 2020 · Al-Albab · 1 citations

    This paper begins by questioning the sustainability of civic engagement with the notion of ‘social capital’ as the key concept of Peace and Conflict Studies. The main question is: to what extent does socio-political tension affect forms of civic engagement? This paper examines interethnic relations (Dayak, Malay, Chinese, and Javanese) developed in the Stella Maris Credit Union (SMCU) in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia under the context of ethnic tension. SMCU is a microfinance association where people with various backgrounds (religion, race, and ethnicity) interact in an economic community, sharing benefits and values. In the beginning, SMCU was initiated as an economic program of St

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  24. Faith communities, social capital and civic engagement

    John Annette · 2015 · Routledge eBooks · 1 citations

    Policy development such as the above reflects the emergence of a Christian ‘communitarianism’ that has been influenced by the emergence of an influential communitarianism in the United Kingdom and the United States and that has both liberal and conservative orientations. This communitarianism has a distinctive view of civic religion, which sees religion as contributing to the creation of a more dynamic civil society and the development of a more democratic political culture as well as a means to reduce the scale of the welfare state (Wuthnow, 1996; 2002).

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