A Sociological Analysis on Social Capital in Kermanshah

For Some Decades, Importance of ‘Social Capital’, beside of other Form of capital has known. This article includes some findings of a Survey of Social Capital in Kermanshah city. This survey is quantitative and has did on 450 people (from 18 to up) of this society, as a sample. Regarding the Social Capital Theories, specially Ideas of Bourdieu, fukuoyama, Putnam, Colman and Granovetteer, we design a model with a four dimension: Interaction Networks, Trust, Contribution, Values and Norms. Results of the research show that in two aspects of ‘Internal interaction’ and ‘social contribution’, the situation is good; But, in other dimensions of social capital, results are not suitable and even are reason for worry. In general, scale of total social capital index is median. However, the results in some dimension, and in some area of city are different. Education, among other Demographic variable, has been most effective agent on Social Capital or its components.