Politics in the Globalization: Thinking on the Relations Between Social Capital and Political Participation

This study aims at analyzing the relationship between social capital and politicalparticipation in terms of new perspectivesonthepoliticsin globalizationprocess.Firstly,itexplainsthenew understanding of politics,increasingimportance ofcommunicationand socialinteractionsforpolitical participation.S...

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Main Author: Kamil Demirhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Sciences Research Society 2012-01-01
Series:International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies
Online Access:http://www.sobiad.org/ejournals/journal_IJSS/arhieves/2012_1/kamil_demirhan.pdf
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Summary:This study aims at analyzing the relationship between social capital and politicalparticipation in terms of new perspectivesonthepoliticsin globalizationprocess.Firstly,itexplainsthenew understanding of politics,increasingimportance ofcommunicationand socialinteractionsforpolitical participation.Secondly,itexplainsthe effects of neo-conservatism on social and political life.This studyevaluates the neo-conservatism asasourceformanynegativesituationsinthesocial and politicallifewhichconstituteobstaclesfor realizingthenewunderstanding ofpolitics.Lastly, social capital is thought as apotentialagainsttothenegativeeffects ofneo-conservatismin relation to political participation withregardingtodilemmaofsocial capital that operatesinordertorealize neo-conservative politics.And different perspectives are evaluated about this relation.
ISSN:1309-8063
1309-8063