Religious Involvement and Status‐Bridging Social Capital

Wuthnow, Robert

doi:10.1111/1468-5906.00153

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“…Also, The other researches such as Wuthnow (2002), Johnson and Jang (2004), Firoozabadi (2005), Yeung (2004) have confirmed this same conclusion. On the other hand, some studies show that level of social capital is low in Iran, and this while Islam as the first religion of this country is having a profound convictions and beliefs.…”

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Examine the Relationship between Religiosity and Social Capital

Akbari¹

2013

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Religion and religious beliefs are very important in individual and social life. So, the religious beliefs create a moral and social discipline, and it creates solidarity and cohesiveness in society and religion plays often a central role in the lives of individuals and communities. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between religiosity and social capital. This study had a main and three sub hypotheses that results show all of them are significant. The research method was descriptive and t-test, correlation and regression tests were used to analysis research hypotheses. The population of this study includes all of students in Payam Noor University of Maragheh and bonab cities who were 6,000 people. Sample of this study were 365 subjects who were selected randomly. The results showed that religiosity has a significant relationship with social capital. It is recommended that should be used from the capacities that created by religion and religious beliefs of individuals in the promotion and utilization of social capital.

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Examine the Relationship between Religiosity and Social Capital

Akbari¹

2013

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“…Crosssectional data do not allow variables to be ordered in time and so it is conceivable that some of the effects discussed here might run in the opposite direction. For example, rather than seeing social class as a source of religious bonding, salutary relations with co-religionists at the temple could spill over into connections for finding a job or advancing career interests (Granovetter 1973;Wuthnow 2002), leading to upward economic mobility. While such alternate directions cannot be ruled out, the present study has tried to base hypotheses on sociological theories that best correspond to qualitative literature from India.…”

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Caste, Class, and Urbanization: The Shaping of Religious Community in Contemporary India

Stroope¹

2016

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Building on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand whether religious bonding social capital in contemporary India increases with greater urbanization and whether such increases are moderated by caste or social class position. Results from multinomial logistic regression on 1,417 Hindu respondents in a nationally representative sample of India (World Values Survey-India 2001) indicate that religious bonding is fostered by urbanism and that this association is stronger for upper castes. But there is little evidence that social class similarly moderates the association between urbanism and religious bonding. In light of these findings, religious bonding might be better understood as rooted in the interaction of caste dynamics and changes in the urban environment, rather than as a result of greater affluence. The data are also consistent with work underscoring the importance of disentangling social class and caste among Hindus in contemporary India.

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“…Putnam (2000) identifies two types of social capital: bonding and bridging capital. While bonding capital refers to the interpersonal solidarity that typically develops among small groups and local communities over extended periods of time, bridging capital focuses on relationships linking heterogeneous groups together (Putnam 2000;Wuthnow 2002).…”

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Demythifying the “Dark Side” of Social Capital: A Comparative Bayesian Analysis of White, Black, Latino, and Asian American Voting Behavior

Liu¹

2011

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Previous studies have suggested that Americans who regularly attend church develop important civic skills which facilitate their participation in politics (e.g., see Verba et al. 1995). Churches were also heralded as important repositories of social capital, particularly for disadvantaged minority groups who have fewer opportunities to develop civic skills (Putnam 2000). Moreover, social capital theorists have argued that homogenous congregations foster the development of bonding (in-group) rather than bridging (out-group) social capital. One important fact, which has not been examined closely in the voting literature, is that American churches are still highly segregated by race/ethnicity according to a recent Gallup Poll (2004). Also unclear in the literature is the differential impact of bonding versus bridging social capital on political participation. Scholarship by Putnam (2000) and Gutmann (1998) suggests that heterogeneity within associational memberships is healthier for democratic citizenship than those with more homogenous memberships. This paper evaluates this claim and investigates whether or not bonding social capital fosters or discourages political participation for both white-majority voters and minorities. Using Bayesian statistical methods, this study, for the first time, conducted a national, cross-racial analysis of whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans based on data from the General Social Survey (2002), National Election Studies (2000), and the Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (2001). The finding suggests that church attendance is significant and positively associated with voting participation among racial/ethnic groups that attend churches with mostly homogenous memberships. Contrary to the negative implications purported to stem from the "dark side" of social capital, the results of this research show that bonding social capital positively influences participation in politics. These findings lead to important implications for understanding the mobilization of immigrant communities, a group that political parties rarely attempt to mobilize (Kim 2007; Wong 2006).

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Religious Involvement and Status‐Bridging Social Capital

Cited by 334 publications

References 51 publications

Examine the Relationship between Religiosity and Social Capital

Examine the Relationship between Religiosity and Social Capital

Caste, Class, and Urbanization: The Shaping of Religious Community in Contemporary India

Demythifying the “Dark Side” of Social Capital: A Comparative Bayesian Analysis of White, Black, Latino, and Asian American Voting Behavior

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