Análise de capital social e qualidade de vida da população rural: Um estudo de caso no munícipio de Itarema, estado do Ceará

Abstract

The present study has as objective to determine and to analyze the development disparities among Porto dos “Barcos” and “Oriente” in Itarema County,resulting from the presence/absence of social capital. For this, one prepared two kinds of questionnaires: the first one, in the attempt of showing the real characteristics of social capital existent in two communities, and other one, in the attempt of measuring the quality of life in the communities, looking for create an index of social capital as quality of life. The results show that the community of “Oriente” chosen as the most develops for the “Conselho de Conhecedores”, has bigger stock of social capital when compared with Porto dos Barcos community, the least developed, enjoy a better quality of life.