Studying Capacities of Social Capital in the Framework of District based Planning

Studying various theories and perspectives towards district development in recent century entirely indicates the priority of social culture of district to the other of its aspects. Considering features and concept of district based planning shows that this perspective instead of expert interfering with simple hypotheses is based on process and communicative programming and step by step it is with making capacity, social capital and people participation in an attempt for social communication, accelerating and enabling. In this research after studying related theoretical concepts, we consider the capacities of social capital in Firozsalar district of Gokan city in the East Azerbaijan province in the framework of possession base perspective. Our dependent variable is willingness for participation which is a prerequisite for district base planning. The other capacities of social capital are independent variables. The survey was conducted among sample of 94 residents of Gokan. Results show indicators of social capital have high correlation with willingness for participation. Also there is a negative significant correlation between evaluation of district's problems and dependent variable. Security (with coefficient of 0.81), social coalition (with coefficient of 0.665), social trust (with coefficient of 0.669) and evaluation of district's problems ordinal (with coefficient-0.19), show casual effects on willingness for participation. As a whole evaluation of social coalition in relation with neighborhoods and trust in all aspects (such as interpersonal, institutional and generalized) indicates that internal coalition has led to decrease generalized trust in Firozsalar.