2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Empirical Study on How Social Capital Activates Community Development
| Project/Area Number |
19710122
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Social systems engineering/Safety system
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| Research Institution | Yamagata University |
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Principal Investigator |
KANAI Masayuki Yamagata University, 地域教育文化学部, 准教授 (60333944)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | ソーシャル・キャピタル / 社会関係資本 / まちづくり / 社会ネットワーク / 社会的ジレンマ |
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| Research Abstract |
The research aimed to clarify how social capital affected the actions of rational actors to activate community development, and to get policies to promote community development activities. The findings from analyses of social survey data on tourist destination development of spa were (1) social capital was essential to promote community development activities, but (2) it was never generated from rational actions of individual actors, so (3) some artificial or political intervention is necessary to generate social capital.
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