Social Capital, Voluntary Associations and Collective Action: Which Aspects of Social Capital Have the Greatest 'Civic' Payoff?
Social Capital, Voluntary Associations and Collective Action: Which Aspects of Social Capital Have the Greatest 'Civic' Payoff?
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DOI：
10.1080/17448680500337475
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Deutsch, Franziska
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作者：
Welzel, Christian;Inglehart, Ronald;Deutsch, Franziska
尽管有各种各样的理论方法，社会资本的实证分析是惊人的相似。几乎所有这些组织都将参加志愿协会视为社区参与的主要指标，而忽视了社区参与的另一种形式：参与挑战精英的行动。同样地，作者们也很容易将社团生活带来的多种公民利益归因于社团生活，但又不愿将这些利益归因于挑战精英的活动。我们基于两个理由质疑这些观点。首先，我们认为，精英挑战行动反映了社会资本，即使这是一个特定的形式：一个解放的形式典型的自我主张的公众。其次，我们使用价值调查的数据来证明，在个人和社会层面，挑战精英的行动与更大的公民利益相关联，而不是加入志愿协会。这一发现证实了人类发展的概念，这表明社会资本的解放形式比其他形式更具公民性。遵循这一概念，我们表明大众自我表达价值观培育了解放性社会资本，激励了挑战精英的行动。最后，我们将自我表达价值观和挑战精英的行动置于解放社会资本理论中。
Despite a great variety of theoretical approaches, empirical analyses of social capital are surprisingly similar. Virtually all of them treat membership in voluntary associations as the chief indicator of community involvement while neglecting another form of community involvement: participation in elite-challenging actions. Likewise, authors readily attribute manifold civic benefits to associational life, while hesitating to attribute such benefits to elite-challenging activity. We question these views on two grounds. Firstly, we argue that elite-challenging action reflects social capital, even though this is a specific form of it: an emancipative form typical of self-assertive publics. Secondly, we use data from the Value Surveys to demonstrate that elite-challenging action is linked with greater civic benefits, at both the individual and societal level, than is membership in voluntary associations. This finding confirms the concept of human development, which suggests that emancipative forms of social capital are more civic in their consequences than others. Following this concept, we show that mass self-expression values nurture emancipative social capital, in motivating elite-challenging action. Finally, we locate self-expression values and elite-challenging actions in a theory of emancipative social capital.