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A study on the Interaction of Residents' Environmental Movement and Social Capital: the case of the Movement against Construction of Water Service Reservoir at Mt. Sungmi in Mapo-gu

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2005, 3(2), pp.155~192
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Kim, Sangmin 1

1한국환경정책학회

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes that social capital which is represented by trust, networks and social norms is accumulatively increased by interaction of residents' environmental movement on the case of movement against construction of water service reservoir in Mt. Sungmi(below Sungmisan movement). Sungmisan movement has background of life-community movement for 10 years and through this movement which could increase residents' voluntary participation and solidarity, they made a chance to develop to more advanced regional movement. During a series of process from life-community movement to residents' environmental movement, participants have increased mutual trust and networks, made social norms. Three groups are separated according to the level of taking part in life-community movement and Sungmisan movement and personal interviews and questionnaires on three conceptual elements of social capital to these three groups are made. This shows that the level of mutual trust, networks and social norms of participants of both life-community movement and sungmisan movement are higher than that of participants of only sungmisan movement and the level of social capital of participants of sungmisan movement are higer than that of common residents. This corroborates that the social capital which has been made through life-community movement was increased in the process of Sungmisan movement and identifies accumulative increase of social capital.

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