International Social Capital Association (ISCA)

Disasters, conflicts and displacement have profound impacts on the social fabrics of communities. The networks and relationships between people, diverse organisations and institutions are the foundation of a sense of community, home, and belonging.

This webinar explores scaling within the context of agricultural research for development, with a particular focus on the role of social capital.

This presentation explores the concept of negative social capital, a counterpart to the commonly celebrated benefits of social networks. While social contacts are often crucial for accessing resources, they can also impose obligations on individuals to support others within their networks.

In this talk, we will discuss the creation of an updated 2019 county-level social capital index for the contiguous United States and its spatial analysis.

In the process of looking for work, job seekers who want to leverage their social connections confront a dilemma: on one hand, using connections increases access to good jobs; on the other hand, we generally believe that we should earn a job based on what we can do, rather than who we know.

This conversation will draw on a study of femicide which analyzed the extent to which crime perpetrators experience and perceive social punishment (exclusion/withdrawal of social capital).

This study examines the racial disparity in health‐care coverage between Hispanics and whites. Racial disparities in accessing health‐care services have worsened in the United States, exacerbating social and economic inequality between whites and racial/ethnic minority groups.

This presentation will share findings from a dissertation study exploring how FGLI Black college women, who participated in campus fitness programs, built and accessed social capital within the often exclusionary spaces of higher education.

This presentation will discuss recent research that explored Native American college students perceived development of bridging, bonding, and campus capital through the social network Facebook.

Community enterprises—such as renewable energy cooperatives, Repair Cafés, and food forests—play an increasingly important role in sustainability transitions.