This study aims to explore women's neighborhood-based social capital empirically, under the premise that it can be practically utilized for neighborhood problem solving and development. For that purpose, this study classifies the female residents in D...
This study aims to explore women's neighborhood-based social capital empirically, under the premise that it can be practically utilized for neighborhood problem solving and development. For that purpose, this study classifies the female residents in Daejeon Metropolitan City into three groups, including political party participants, civil group participants, and socially non-associated residents. It compare and contrasts their respective level of neighborhood-based social capital by carrying out a questionnaire survey and applying ANOVA. The result shows that civil group participants have highest mean scores in every dimension of the social capital measure showing statistically significant difference, while the participants in political party lowest. Also mostly, there does not exist much statistically significant difference between non-associated residents and civil group participants. On the other hand, the political party participant group shows significantly lower scores than other two groups. The conclusion provides some policy implications of the research result, including civil group women's more positive role in community activity and political party participants' more concern with the community affairs.