2010 Cilt 3 Sayı 2
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Item Open Access Building social capital and education: The experiences of Pakistani Muslims in the UK(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Thapar, Suruchi; Sanghera, Gurchathen S.By critically engaging with relevant debates on social capital, socio-economic mobility and educational aspirations amongst minority ethnic groups, the focus of this paper is to examine the processes and mechanisms in the accumulation of social capital, to demonstrate how, in particular, two sets of interpersonal relationships (between siblings and between co-ethnic peers) facilitate educational aspirations amongst an ethnic group that has traditionally been perceived to be underachieving. It highlights the complex interplay within the home and between the home and the community, and the potential implications that these have for shaping the educational aspirations of young Pakistani Muslim men and women. This paper draws on empirical research conducted with the Pakistani Muslim ‘community’ in inner-city Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK; a northern-English city that has experienced large scale public disturbances in 1995 and 2001.Item Open Access The capital use of social capital or how social capital is used to keep capital concentrated(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Glascock, Anthony P.; Kutzik, David M.This paper addresses the role of social capital networks in the accumulation of large sums of money for investment. In particular, the study undertakes an analysis at the micro level of individual actions involved in the actual process by which social capital is converted into capital, i.e. money. This analysis highlights the socialfacilitating functions and processes of social capital networks, while focusing attention on the essential relationship between social capital and money. Our analysis clearly indicates that social capital is the means of production in a type of venture capitalism and is the real means by which the accumulation of capital itself is controlled. Perhaps even more importantly, our findings show that these networks exist to ensure that any profit made by the members of the network remains within the network and does not flow to other networks of financially elite individuals nor trickle down to individuals who are not financially elite.Item Open Access Measuring effectiveness of social capital in microfinance: A case study of urban microfinance programme in India(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Basargekar, PremaCreation and use of social capital is considered to be one of the emerging tools of development programmes. It is valued as one of the vital link to replace physical capital with social intermediation in microfinance. The paper analyses the meaning and role of social capital with specific reference to microfinance programme and tries to measure its impact on social empowerment of women with the help of empirical findings. The paper is based on primary data collected of 217 women Self Help Group (SHG) members by using random sample method from the SHGs organized by Forbes Marshall Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturing company in Pune, Maharashtra, India as an initiative of corporate social responsibility. A Likert scale is used to find the perceptions of SHG members about the changes which microfinance programme has brought out in their lives with respect to 15 parameters related to awareness building, capacity building and active and collective participation in social and political life to bring out desirable changes. The paper concludes that microfinance programme implemented by the organization has created a social capital which has an empowering effect on SHG members. The paper suggests that creation of social capital is not an automatic outcome and the organizations have to create and nurture it deliberately by implementing specific policies such as capacity building programmes, developing decision making abilities, etc.Item Open Access Prestige concept reconsidered. Hybridity of prestige in post-socialist biomedical profession(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Bazylevych, Maryna Y.This article re-considers the applicability of the concept of prestige by focusing on a post-socialist context as the site of particularly rapid social change and renegotiation of social relationships. I argue against the assumption that the biomedical profession in post-socialist societies is not prestigious. My ethnographic data suggest that the search for the economic capital reflects not only desire of physical comfort, but just as importantly, desire for re-negotiated social status in the context where relationships between social classes change. The concept of prestige emerges as a nuanced process rather than static notion, underlying the multiple factors influencing post-socialist physicians’ status.Item Open Access Primary school students’ benefiting from museums with educational purposes(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Doğan, Yadigar; Uludağ Üniversitesi.The aim of the study is to investigate what primary school students’ benefiting from museums with educational purposes. That learning and teaching environments are connected with reality enables the realization of meaningful learning. Nevertheless, relations have been determined between allocating time for museum visits and the joys inside teachers waken by Social Studies course. Museum provides an excellent environment which enables students to learn while living and experiencing that can contribute to their mental, physical, affective, cognitive, and social development. The contribution of museums in getting time concept concrete will be at highest level due to the fact that families will share mutual time and place with their children. Relation was detected between teachers’ having libraries that they can improve themselves professionally, allocating time for museum visits, and feeling that Social Sciences course creates joy inside them.Item Open Access Social capital dimensions in collaborative networks: The role of linking social capital(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Macke, Janaina; Dilly, Eliete KunrathThis paper proposes a model to analyze social capital in enterprise collaborative networks. We used qualitative and quantitative methods in a triangulation of information process. This model was built from a case study in an enterprise collaborative network, promoted by the Brazilian government. We focused on the identification of the social capital dimensions present in the network. We defend the importance of social capital evaluation in collaborative networks and the role of linking social capital, as an integrator concept. The “linking social capital” allows us to unify two approaches: one that considers only horizontal social relations and another that covers power relations. In this sense, we propose a model to analyze the linking social capital in collaborative networks, unifying the two different approaches.Item Open Access Socio-spatial planning in the creation of bridging social capital: The importance of multifunctional centers for intergroup networks and integration(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2010) Svendsen, Gunnar Lind HaaseSocial capital is about people who meet, get to know each other and help each other in various ways. Therefore, it appears odd that discussions on meeting places and social capital are rare. This paper discusses the linkage, here termed socio-spatial planning. It raises the question: How can public meeting places facilitate creation of bridging social capital? It suggests that one possible way of securing regular, intergroup face-to-face meetings would be to establish multifunctional centers. Such houses include public services such as health care, school, library; private enterprises as grocers’ shops and banks; and facilities for local associations such as theatre scenes and sports halls. Cases from the Netherlands and Denmark indicate that such large meeting places help counteract segregation of various groups – be it ethnic, social or age. In this way, a well-functioning multifunctional center facilitates provision of the collective goods of integration and bridging social capital.