Building communitary social capital stock and civil empowerment

Abstract

These notes intend to identify the features that favor the creation of communatry social capityal among the Federation of Juvenile Consumers Organizations of Concepción and prove that it propriates the building of citizenship among young people as well as difensible development focused in integratility. To carry out this research, the theories of Communitary Social Capital were used in order to confirm if among the FJCOC it could be find social control, coordinate co-operation, conflicts resoluction, communitary resources legitimation and team work. As well, the Reality Socila Building Theories were used to describe the institutionality and legitimation of its actions. Throug a qualitative methodology based in phenomenological currents, eight semi structural interviews were carried out ot same number of FJCOC members. This helped to check that they are able to create norms and sanctions and develop planning based in organized work among other aspects.