Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research

Modern megalopolis concentrates all groups of resources including economic, political, cultural, information, human resources, etc. The high population density, economic and geographic situation, complex multiethnic and multicultural structure of large cities contribute to certain types of values an...

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Main Author: Anna Vladimirovna Shentyakova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2021-12-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Political Science
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/viewFile/25716/19047
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description Modern megalopolis concentrates all groups of resources including economic, political, cultural, information, human resources, etc. The high population density, economic and geographic situation, complex multiethnic and multicultural structure of large cities contribute to certain types of values and behavioral models in the younger generation. The neo-institutional approach and social capital theory were chosen as a methodological basis. The article examines a number of methodological works devoted to various aspects of the social capital and explores the opportunity for this concept application for analysis of the protest behavior motivation and assessment of the protest potential of young people. Combination of the economic model of multilevel analysis for measuring social capital by S.А. Sysoev and socio-political parameters for the empirical part allowed to clearly defining the main categories and indicators of analysis. Measuring the levels of social capital of a megalopolis with the inclusion a network component expands the range of opportunities for assessing and identifying the protest potential of large Russian cities residents.
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spelling doaj.art-9fe50cbc83ca442bae55cc9d5386347a2022-12-21T22:27:51ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Political Science2313-14382313-14462021-12-0123113014010.22363/2313-1438-2021-23-1-130-14019736Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical ResearchAnna Vladimirovna Shentyakova0Saint Petersburg State UniversityModern megalopolis concentrates all groups of resources including economic, political, cultural, information, human resources, etc. The high population density, economic and geographic situation, complex multiethnic and multicultural structure of large cities contribute to certain types of values and behavioral models in the younger generation. The neo-institutional approach and social capital theory were chosen as a methodological basis. The article examines a number of methodological works devoted to various aspects of the social capital and explores the opportunity for this concept application for analysis of the protest behavior motivation and assessment of the protest potential of young people. Combination of the economic model of multilevel analysis for measuring social capital by S.А. Sysoev and socio-political parameters for the empirical part allowed to clearly defining the main categories and indicators of analysis. Measuring the levels of social capital of a megalopolis with the inclusion a network component expands the range of opportunities for assessing and identifying the protest potential of large Russian cities residents.http://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/viewFile/25716/19047megalopolissocial capital of youthlevels and forms of social capitalvalues
spellingShingle Anna Vladimirovna Shentyakova
Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research
RUDN Journal of Political Science
megalopolis
social capital of youth
levels and forms of social capital
values
title Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research
title_full Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research
title_fullStr Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research
title_full_unstemmed Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research
title_short Social Capital of Youth in a Modern City: Opportunities for Empirical Research
title_sort social capital of youth in a modern city opportunities for empirical research
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social capital of youth
levels and forms of social capital
values
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