| Summary: | Background. The ongoing changes in socio-political relations require studying
the social aspects of the interaction of such participants as political parties and public organizations.
An important problem is the accumulation of social capital in the process of
social interaction of parties and organizations with government structures and with representatives
of society. The aim of the work is to systematize various sociological approaches
to the analysis of social capital and to implement structural and factorial operationalization
of the concept of “social capital of political parties and public organizations”. Materials
and methods. The implementation of the research tasks was achieved on the basis of the
methodology of institutional approach applicable to the theoretical analysis of scientific
works of foreign and Russian sociologists on the signs and factors of the formation of social
capital in the modern society. Results. Based on the comparison of the views of modern
foreign and Russian sociologists, a structural and factorial operationalization of the concept
of “social capital of political parties and public organizations” operating in the conditions of
regional society is developed. Conclusions. The structural operationalization of the concept
of “social capital of political parties and public organizations” includes: social connections
or networks for the exchange of information and interaction of individuals; social norms
regulating interaction on the principle of mutual compensation of effort spent and equal
return; trust in social and political institutions, public figures and leaders, organizations and
trust in representatives of the surrounding society. Factor operationalization includes: objective
factors (socio-economic, socio-communication, socio-political); subjective factors
(socio-psychological); factors of social interaction (orientation and intensity of social interactions).
On the basis of this methodology, from the standpoint of an institutional
approach, it is possible to further study the accumulation of social capital of political parties
and public organizations in the conditions of the region. Social relationships, trust, and
the social well-being of the representatives of the regional society form the social basis for
the development of this capital.
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