Kapitał społeczny - endogenny zasób mieszkańców województwa podkarpackiego

Hubert Kotarski

This paper is attempt to reflect over the role of the social capital in the process of the existence of local communities using the empirical example of Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The main objective of this paper is to determine the level of social capital of inhabitants of Podkarpackie Voivodeship and the prospect of making use of this resource in the regional development of Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The research results have shown that there is a correlation between the social capital and regional development using the example of Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The analysis of correlation between the social capital demonstrated a connection between the level of regional development and the possibility to increase it and the extent and quality of social capital the regional development can be affected by.