Investigating the Relationship between Cultural Capital and between-Person Trusts (Case Study: Government University of ILAM)

Mohammad Hussein Askarinia, Ali Akbar Khalafi, Mohammad Abasi Niko and Ehsan Namdar Joyami

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 5, issue 6, 229-243

Abstract: There are many kinds of exchangeable capital sin the world. This study aims to investigate the relationship between cultural capital and between- person trusts as the main variable of social capital. By examining the relationship between interpersonal trust and cultural capital, it is possible to promote the culture of trust – making among the various groups and increase the congruence of knowledge – based organizations and universities. From the goal perspective, this is a theoretical study and from data – gathering perspective, this is a descriptive – measurable study. Data was analyzed by use of SPSS 19 and lisrel 8/53 soft wares. The population included 462 employees of government university of ilam among whom 353 ones were selected as the sample using Kerjsi – Morgan's table. Bourdieu argues that cultural capital includes 3 dimensions: embodied dimension, factual dimension and basic dimension. In this regard, there are four hypotheses showing that there is a meaningful and positive relationship between the three dimensions and betweenperson trusts. The degrees of Cronbach's alpha relative to the three dimensions are respectively 74%, 92% and 83%. The R – values relative to the dimensions are 59%, 66% and 54%. Moreover, the degree of total relationship between cultural capital and between-person trusts is 63%.

Keywords: Embodied cultural capital; Factual cultural capital; Basic cultural capital; betweenperson trusts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Investigating_the_ ... versity_of_ILAM).pdf (application/pdf)
http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Investigating_the_ ... versity_of_ILAM).pdf (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hur:ijarbs:v:5:y:2015:i:6:p:229-243

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences from Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Hassan Danial Aslam ().