Can Social trust and participation be reinforced through education? Empirical data from Greece.
Efstratios Papanis and Myrsine Roumeliotou Abstract The present study is part of a wider research conducted in Greece on social capital and the correlation of its two dimensions – social trust and participation – with variables, such as gender, age, income etc. The study also attempts to explore the differences presented in social capital among participants of different educational levels. The present article particularly focuses on a specific group, i.e. Second Chance School graduates in Greece and studies the impact of their involvement in life-long training on their social trust and participation levels, compared with adults of other educational levels. Correlations between educational level, social participation and trust were calculated using the Pearson Chi-Square test. Key words: social capital, social trust, social participation, Second Chance School, adult education, educational level. Introduction Social capital constitutes – along with economic and cultural – one of the thr...