2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An empirical study on Social Capital of Self-Help groups of Parents who have Futoukoji(School absentees).

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21730669
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sociology of education
Research Institution	Hitotsubashi University (2010-2011) Osaka University (2009)
Principal Investigator	YAMADA Tetsuya 一橋大学, 大学院・社会学研究科, 准教授 (10375214)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	不登校 / 自助グループ / 親の会 / 社会関係資本
Research Abstract	This study concludes that there are three findings as follows : 1) what information about coping with Futouko(absent from school) and contact with important person are determined by relation of self-help groups to other organization. 2) regardless of difference in social network on organizational level, social capital functions as bonding/bridging social ties in each self-help groups of Parents who have Futokouji(school absentee). Social capital accumulated in these self-help groups has double function. 3) members of self-help groups use social capital as social resources according to their object. Novice members tend to use bridging social capital for coping with Futoko as "problems". On the other hand, experienced members who have participated in the groups for a long time are inclined to use bonding social capital for recognizing their life as valuable one.

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