The present research tried to study a scientific step toward explaining orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei about the importance of citizens’ support of national products. The main goal of this research was to study the effective social factors in citizens’ support of national products. Statistical population was 400 persons of Kerman’s people aged more than 15 years old. The theoretica...

The spatialization of social concepts in to the city context is becoming a need. However, currently, there are few tools to directly spatialize environmental psychology concepts, such as sense of place, or social and participatory concepts, such as social capital and civic engagement. Furthermore, most existing tools are not taking full advantage of Geographical Information Science (GISc) capab...

Background: The effects of war as well as military conflict include long-term physical and psychological harm to children and adults. Social relations and trust play a role in peace building and conflict resolution. Social capital is believed to facilitate institutional and interpersonal trust as well as safety and security, and thus may become an important resource in times of military conflic...

This paper seeks to contribute to social capital research by linking measures of formal and informal forms of social capital to social mobility trajectories and assessing their impact on social trust. Drawing on data from a recent national survey--Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion (2003/2004)--we analyse formal civic engagement and informal social connections. The latter data are obtained u...

The problem of finding the influencers in social networks has been traditionally dealt in an optimization setting by finding the top-k nodes that has the maximum information spread in the network. These methods aim to find the influencers in a network through the process of information diffusion. However, none of these approaches model the individual social value generated by collaborations in ...

Social media provides rich sources of personal information and community interaction which can be linked to aspect of mental health. In this paper we investigate manifest properties of textual messages, including latent topics, psycholinguistic features, and authors’ mood, of a large corpus of blog posts, to analyze the aspect of social capital in social media communities. Using data collected ...

Bridging social capital is defined as the connections between individuals who are dissimilar with respect to socioeconomic and other characteristics. There is an important gap in the literature related to its measurement. We describe the development and validation of a questionnaire to measure bridging social capital. We focused the development of the questionnaire to be suitable for use in Lat...

This study provides an empirical test of two mechanisms (social capital and exposure to air pollution) that are theorized to mediate the effect of neighborhood on health and contribute to racial disparities in health outcomes. To this end, we utilize the Social Capital Benchmark Study, a national survey of individuals nested within communities in the United States, to estimate how multiple dime...

In a world where there are increasing concerns of resource scarcity, the emergent phenomenon of ICT enabled Collaborative Consumption Services (CCS), is becoming relevant as it presents a more efficient allocation of resources and is associated with the generation of social capital. There has been little research on CCS and how social capital is generated. This study aimed to address this gap i...