Assessment and Evaluation of social capital in rural settlements with using of fuzzy ranking technique (Case Study: the villages of Asalem District

Today, social capital, a much more important role of physical and human capital in organizations and communities play. Without social capital development path, are rugged and tough. Social capital is an important social issue, such as important economic indicators such as GDP, inflation and employment and development plays a major role. Given the importance and the role that social capital can have on rural development, this research is seeks to measure social capital in rural settlements in the Asalem district.The general approach of the research is a type of the quantitative researches and methods of data collection based on field studies and documents. Research method is Quantitative, that the quantitative models is used. To assess and prioritize social capital in the Asalem village of 25 indicators in four dimensions of social cohesion, social trust, social participation and social awareness is used. Four dimensions, weight is through AHP questionnaire. In this context, the fuzzy as decision multivariate method is used to prioritize. Range of Each question answer had five Likert scale. For each option (very high, high, medium, low, very low), a triangular membership function, the fuzzy values, respectively (100, 70, 40), (90, 60, 30), (80, 50, 20), (70, 40, 10) and (60, 30, 0) shown have been applied to the fuzzy matrix parameters are obtained. The results show that among the Asalem villages respectively were Klasara and Turkmahaleh with scores of 0.099 and 0.217 highest level of social capital and Miandeh and Narnjadul respectively with 0.442 and 0.433 lowest level of social capital.