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Resources for (successful) active citizenship. The starting point s The successfulness of citizens’ activities depends on individual, i.e. personal, capacities, as well as on a supportive social environment. The individual capacities of active citizens can be broken up into three groups:
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Resources for (successful) active citizenship The starting points The successfulness of citizens’ activities depends on individual, i.e. personal, capacities, as well as on a supportive social environment. The individual capacities of active citizens can be broken up into three groups: inborn dispositions (‘born’ into a certain family, social, national environment) and the possession of acquired capacities (know-how, skills etc.); the successful management of individual and environmental changes; successful involvement in social relationships, institutions, networks at the different levels of the social structure. The possession of these capacities can be addressed in the context of the availability of active citizens with certain types of social capital.
Correlations between the characteristics of active citizenship and social capital
Levels of interrelatedness between active citizenship and a supportive environment • Supportive environmentPersonal (Active citizens) engagement Abstract democracy: »Human race membership” Individual practices; personal politics (Inter)National structures »Mezzo« level »Micro« level: informal groups Global and national institutions Local communities Small organizations…
A supportive social environment Social networks Family background Efficiency and individual capacities Being part of a community, solidarity Attitudes to education Characteristics of active citizenship and kind of the social capital
