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Bonding and Bridging

Understanding the Relationship between Social Capital and Civic Action

School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan

Sharon L. Harlan

Department of Sociology at Arizona State University

Bob Bolin

Center for Environmental Studies and in the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University

Edward J. Hackett

Center for Environmental Studies, Department of Sociology at Arizona State University

Diane Hope

Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project

Andrew Kirby

Arizona State University’s West campus

Amy Nelson

Primary Care Research Institute in the College of Medicine at Ohio State University

Tom R. Rex

Center for Business Research, L. William Seidman Research Institute, Arizona State

Shaphard Wolf

Survey Research Laboratory at Arizona State’s Institute for Social Science Research

This study investigates the relationship between social connections and collective civic action. Measuring social capital in eight Phoenix, Arizona, neighborhoods allowed the authors to determine that individuals with strong social bonding (i.e., association and trust among neighbors) are more likely to take civic action. However, while social capital lessens the relationship between an individual’s social status and the likelihood of taking action, it does not eliminate the positive relationship. The analysis also suggests that bonding and bridging are distinct forms of social capital that have some different antecedents

Key Words: collective civic action • social connection • status

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