Socialt kapital : Skillnad på stad och landsbygd?

Sammanfattning: This study examines the connection between social capital and urban and rural areas. The study divides the environments into two categories; metropolises and rural areas. Metropolises are defined as any of Swedens largest cities Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö. The study also examines if there is a difference between these groups in how high social trust they have to people living in the same areas as themselves versus people who live in other areas. The studie also focuses on the urbanization that the world is going through, where people move from rural areas into the cities for work and education. Does the urbanization also have an effect of the development of the social capital? Social capital is defined as social trust and the participants have been asked to which extent they feel like they can trust other people. The results of the research shows there exists a slight but consistent difference between the groups where we can see that the people who has grown up in metropolises has a higher social trust than the people raised in rural areas. The study also shows that although the people raised in rural areas has lower trust to people in general, they have higher trust to people living in the same areas as themselves.