Bulletin of the Faculty of Life and Environmental Science Shimane University

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Bulletin of the Faculty of Life and Environmental Science Shimane University 9
2004-08-31 発行

Social Capital and Community Development : Conceptual Framework

Ishida, Akira
Yokoyama, Shigeki
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The main objective of this article is to broadly describe how social capital matters in community development and what sort of issues have been raised in previous studies with respect to data collection, measuring social capital and data analysis. In conclusion, although social capital seems to affect the level of community development to some extent, we should keep in mind several issues when measuring social capital.