Social Capital

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Gaysornsiri Arunchaiyaporn

Abstract

When it comes to the social capital, basically, it is the social capital on three issues, including the definition of the concept, theory of social capital, and the research on social capital. Each issue has a technical meaning to the concepts and various theories. Social capital is the economic factors and culture related to social networks with cooperation and trust. But many scholars still have no definition. "Social capital" shared, because there is no provided a definition of "Social capital" that is absolutely clear. The Western scholars mostly agree that there is no definition of "Social capital" that can be agreed. However, the research study will be based on the criteria and the investigation level, or the use of definition that most commonly used. This is the definition that focuses on social relationships that benefit the production, however, if there are collected the various scholars’ viewpoints about the meaning of "Social capital".

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Arunchaiyaporn, G. . (2016). Social Capital. Nakhon Lampang Buddhist College’s Journal, 5(2). retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NBJ/article/view/253066
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