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Social Capital and Socio‐demographic Changes: From Non‐differentiation to Multifocalisation
Author(s) -
Carmo Renato Miguel,
Santos Sofia
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
sociologia ruralis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-9523
pISSN - 0038-0199
DOI - 10.1111/soru.12027
Subject(s) - social capital , sociology , interpersonal communication , multiple correspondence analysis , framing (construction) , multivariate analysis , social status , social reproduction , social mobility , economic geography , multivariate statistics , demographic economics , social science , geography , economics , statistics , mathematics , archaeology
Abstract This article examines how different socio‐demographic trends interrelate with alterations in the traditional forms of social and interpersonal relationships. We will focus on two P ortuguese municipalities using the concept of rural community as an analytic starting point for framing and examining the different dimensions of social capital. The survey's data shows that the generalised nature of mutual knowledge and trust, that used to characterise more traditional communities, tends now to depend on new social categories and groups that live and interact in these places. The study contains a multivariate, multiple correspondence analysis, which shows three different profiles of social capital coexisting in the two areas.