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Neighborhood Social Capital as Differential Social Organization

Resident and Leadership Dimensions

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, rsampson@wjh harvard.edu

Corina Graif

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

This article treats social capital as a multidimensional phenomenon along which neighborhoods are differentially organized. The authors assess this notion by linking two original surveys carried out in Chicago based on community residents (N = 8,782) and positional leaders (N = 2,822) representing six organizational dimensions. These data are used to examine both the dimensionality and structural predictors of neighborhood social organization. Results show that the social capital of Chicago communities encapsulates four distinct dimensions at the residential level and two at the leadership level. Moreover, dimensions of leadership-based social capital are for the most part inversely related to resident-based social capital and differentially predicted by concentrated disadvantage, residential stability, and racial/ethnic diversity. Based on multidimensional scaling and clustering of the communities, the authors derive a conceptual typology highlighted by four distinct groups—Cosmopolitan Efficacy, Urban Villages, Institutional Alienation, and Conduct Norms. The authors discuss implications and suggest new directions for exploration of community differentiation.

Key Words: neighborhood • efficacy • organization • leadership • networks

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 52, No. 11, 1579-1605 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764209331527


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