한국 사회자본의 특성에 관한 연구

초록

This study tries a more microscopic empirical analysis using social survey data on Korea in Wave 6 of the World Values ​ ​ Survey (WVS), which includes various contemporaneous surveys, to analyze what questionnaires are related to the components of social capital. Putnam (1993) suggested three components of socal capital: general trust, social norms, and network. The respondents of the questionnaire were divided into high and low groups according to each of three criteria. For each questionnaire, the differences of between the sample means of two groups were tested. Regarding the questionnaire on general trust, there is no statistically significant difference between low and high groups of the social capital. On the other hand, the network high group shows higher general trust level than low group. Surveys on networks are generally found to be in proportion to general trust and social norms. And surveys on social norms are not correlated with other social capital elements such as general trust and network. Surveys on trust for a person are shown to be proportional to each component of social capital. Confidence in an organization is found to be higher in the high group than in the low group of any component of social capital. This means that each component of social capital and confidence in each organization are in proportion. Confidence in organizations is generally proportional to all components of social capital, but it appears that there is a stronger proportionality to social norms and networks than to general trust. And decomposed social capital components have a statistically significant effect on the individual’s happiness, life satisfaction, subjective health status, government trust, social institution trust and non-profit organization trust. This study is expected to provide a basis for understanding which variable or data should be considered more when constructing the data for future social capital survey.

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