It is no surprise that there have been efforts applied to determine the direct effect of the declining activity that involves citizens’ participation in America’s democracy. Researchers like Robert Putnam (2000) who had devoted a tremendous amount of time searching for answers to determine the reasons and factors behind ‘why citizens are not engaged in social activities’. Putnam’s theory of social capital describes that success depends greatly on the bonds of collaboration and working collectively as a group, or when people participate in different community activities, such as town hall meetings activities, PTAs, church, sports activities, service organizations and union memberships. The different types of organizations that exist in a community
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The question to be answered here is “Does social capital increase the likelihood of political participation among different demographic groups in the U.S.? To answer this question, this research is divided into various parts that consist of six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction of the major questions and issues. The second chapter is the background on the topic and literature review that will explain the opinions of others scholars and authors. The third chapter will focus on the conceptual framework, which is the conceptualization of the study variables and it helps the reader to visualize how the potential influences of the underlying factors have on voting and political participation. This framework also identifies the independent variables and their relationship to the dependent variable. The fourth chapter is the methodology; this chapter explains all the methods used to achieve the completion of this research. The methodology focuses on the hypotheses and research questions, data collected and the analysis, data processing, the type of study done to obtain our results, and the design of the research. The fifth chapter explained the results and findings: and the last sixth chapter explained our discussion and conclusion …show more content…
The CPS consisted of several different sections, over 5,000 households and 200 questions. The quantitative model assessment consists of using secondary data from the CPS study, which a cross-sectional study is done in 2013. The information collected from this cross-sectional, random and nationally representative data allows the researchers to have a holistic view of Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics, ages 18+ from a wide cross section. The analytical assessment is based on a sub-set of data in excel and STATA using the main variables. This aspect of the methodology will also cover cross-tabulations, comparing
The question to be answered here is “Does social capital increase the likelihood of political participation among different demographic groups in the U.S.? To answer this question, this research is divided into various parts that consist of six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction of the major questions and issues. The second chapter is the background on the topic and literature review that will explain the opinions of others scholars and authors. The third chapter will focus on the conceptual framework, which is the conceptualization of the study variables and it helps the reader to visualize how the potential influences of the underlying factors have on voting and political participation. This framework also identifies the independent variables and their relationship to the dependent variable. The fourth chapter is the methodology; this chapter explains all the methods used to achieve the completion of this research. The methodology focuses on the hypotheses and research questions, data collected and the analysis, data processing, the type of study done to obtain our results, and the design of the research. The fifth chapter explained the results and findings: and the last sixth chapter explained our discussion and conclusion …show more content…
The CPS consisted of several different sections, over 5,000 households and 200 questions. The quantitative model assessment consists of using secondary data from the CPS study, which a cross-sectional study is done in 2013. The information collected from this cross-sectional, random and nationally representative data allows the researchers to have a holistic view of Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics, ages 18+ from a wide cross section. The analytical assessment is based on a sub-set of data in excel and STATA using the main variables. This aspect of the methodology will also cover cross-tabulations, comparing