결혼이주여성의 사이버 공동체 사회자본에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate the properties of the social capital in cyber communities of married immigrant women in Korea. The study period was from September 2013 to August 2014 and data was collected in parallel with the survey interview. Analysis of the data was used for statistical programs, SPSS 21.0. The results were as follows: First, look at the characteristics of community participation as the basis of social capital as follows: immigrant women may prefer a smart-phone messenger and SNS Face-book as a media of cyber community and preferred a smart-phone as communication tool. They are aware of the main features of the cyber community as “communication relationship”. Their cyber community has a very strong cohesive properties as well as the external doors are closed firmly. It shows that ‘trust’, ‘relationships’, ‘norm’ factors recognized highly but ‘political participation’ factor recognized relatively low in four categories of social capital and they are separated by the members in the cyber communities. They differentiate between ‘politics’ and other parts. This implies a more detailed and in-depth research is needed. And that cyber community characteristics and participation ‘relationship’, ‘norm’, ‘politics’ is greater correlation is emerge. It has been identified that ‘relationship (network)’ and ‘communication relationship’, have a very high positive correlation. But ‘politics’ is measured the quantity less than the other three areas (trust, relationships, and norms), but it have been identified that ‘politics’ is a positive correlation with the cohesion degree of the community. We can infer that the higher the cohesion, the higher ‘politics’ participation. However, through the actual interview, they say ‘politics’ is very difficult because of their low social and economic status. It represents the improving between social status and the ‘equality’ of political participation must be pursued together. In the results of the study, several significant ways are identified. The first, ‘politics’ and the other three social capital is largely divided into two categories, collective identity and characteristics of the community are projected in social capital, relationship social capital ‘norms’ and ‘openness’ is negative, and social status and the activeness of political participation are deep-related, etc. But there are a few problems such as representativeness problems, the lack of qualitative research and detailed description, etc. These problems will be sufficiently complementary in subsequent studies.