The role of social capital in management and neighborhood participation (Case study:Hshmi and Themori neighborhoods)

Urban management means managing the affairs of the local community with regard to stability and satisfaction and compliance with national policy.achieve this management, attention to social capital necessary to build local partnerships to mobilize citizens latent resources to fix the growing problems. While the neighborhood management in tehran have been created to connect people and local communities with city council and tehran city management, lack of effectiveness and efficiency are required and no defined relationship wiht city management and city council.In recent years, many societies are accepted the concept of social capital as part of a strategy to revitalize and reinforce the urban communities and to reduce the issues and problems originating from immethodical growth of population.Although the issue of neighborhood management has been posed in Tehran metropolis, the neighborhood management has still challenges and problems. As a result, the management of Tehran in general and district 10 of municipality in particular have been faced with a crisis.Therefore, by using the potential of social capital of the residents, the ground for realizing the scheme of neighborhood management and optimal participation of residents can be provided. So, the success of neighborhood management depends on emphasizing the recognition of potentials in the form of social capital. This paper is a descriptive-analytical study which examines the concept of social capital and its relationship with neighborhood management.To assess the degree of social capital, 201 questionaires were distributed among the residents of two regions of hashemi and teimoori in district 10 of Tehran.To analyze the data, SPSS software, independent sample T-test, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient were used. The results of research represents significant differences between social capital in neighborhoods, That matter cause different influence on participation level in this neighborhoods. Namely there is correlation between willingness to participation and social capital. But no correlation between social capital and actual participation in this neighborhoods.Also,despite the high level of social capital in temori than hashemi,level of familiarity and actual participation in the hashemi more than teimoori neighborhood, this shows that social capital in the teimoori neighborhood less exploited and not much impact in actual participation of residents.