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Social capital and the rural church.(Report)
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Rural Society
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December 1, 2007
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This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and the church, in the rural Australian context. It is based on some of the findings from a twenty-month long community study carried out by the author in 2001-2 in a country town in rural NSW.
Social capital has been referred to as 'a slippery but nonetheless important concept'. Many have found that this is indeed the case when attempting to clearly define, to measure, or to identify the correlates of this concept. A difficulty that arises when attempting any sort of quantitative analysis involving social capital is the problem of a reliable measure, for in the absence of a measure, meaningful comparisons with other ...
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