Spatial Differentiation of Social Capital: A Case Study of Peripheral and Rural Microregions in Czechia
Abstract
The article deals with an issue of conception and evaluation a social capital on example of peripheral regions in Czechia. Social capital is considered here as a personal ability to get along in a community and to contribute to a development of civil society by personal activity.
This conception includes both individual both network aspects of the phenomenon. The state and quality of the social capital was studied with help of questionnaire survey realised in 14 peripheral model areas in Czechia.
The areas were chosen with respect to their geographic position (inner and outer peripheries, resettled and continuously settled peripheries). Several presenting results documents that a quality of social capital is partly influenced by post-war population displacement, but, the probably most important factor is a position toward the functional larger centres, e.g. provincial capitals.