Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital

A general trend in the study of international retirement migration has been the increased attention paid to the social contacts and network connections of the migrants in both the destination and the origin areas. These studies have examined the extent to which migrants build social relationships with their neighbours and the host society while also maintaining social links with their countries of origin, addressing the central role that leisure travel plays in sustaining increasingly dispersed social networks and maintaining the social capital of these networks and of the individuals involved in them. Using a case study approach to examine British retirement migration to Spain, we explore the relevance of transnational social networks in the context of international retirement migration, particularly the intensity of bidirectional visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism flows and the migrants’ social contacts with friends and/or family back in their home country. Building on the concept of social capital and Putnam's distinction between bonding and bridging social capital, we propose a framework for the analysis of the migrants’ international social networks. The results of a study conducted based on a sample of 365 British retirees living in the coast of Alicante (Spain) show both the strength of the retirees’ international bonding social capital and the role of ‘VFR's travel and communication technologies in sustaining the migrants’ transnational social practices and, ultimately, their international bonding social capital. It also provides evidence for the reinforcing links between tourism-related mobility and amenity-seeking migration in later life.

A review on political analysis and social media

En los países democráticos, conocer la intención de voto de los ciudadanos y las valoraciones de los principales partidos y líderes políticos es de gran interés tanto para los propios partidos como para los medios de comunicación y el público en general. Para ello se han utilizado tradicionalmente costosas encuestas personales. El auge de las redes sociales, principalmente Twitter, permite pensar en ellas como una alternativa barata a las encuestas. En este trabajo, revisamos la bibliografía científica más relevante en este ámbito, poniendo especial énfasis en el caso español.

The Ladies' manual : a guide to woman in health and sickness, from youth to advanced age : containing also a treatise on marriage and home culture, how to become beautiful, rules of deportment, dress, and social forms, etc., etc., etc /

Includes index.

Man and society, political and social theory.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Browning's message to his time: his religion, philosophy, and science.

Bound in maroon cloth; stamped in gold and blind; gray coated endpapers.

Sanctity and social service,

Activity the goal of prayer.--Catherine of Sienna, saint and suffragist.--Francis of Assisi, saint and social reformer.--Joan of Arc, saint and patriot.--Ignatius Loyola, saint and empire-builder.--Vincent de Paul, saint and founder of modern philosophy.--The apology of works.

Practical philosophy of social life;

Mode of access: Internet.

Philosophy and psychology pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Philosophy and psychology pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Psychology and social sanity,

Sex education.--Socialism.--The intellectual underworld.--Thought transference.--The mind of the juryman.--Efficiency on the farm.--Social sins in advertising.--The mind of the investor.--Society and the dance.--Naīve psychology.

Studies of good and evil: a series of essays upon problems of philosophy and of life,

The problem of Job.--The case of John Bunyan.--Tennyson and pessimism.--The knowledge of good and evil.--Natural law, ethics, and evolution.--The implications of self-consciousness.--Some observations on the anomalies of self-consciousness.--Self-consciousness, social consciousness and nature.--Originality and consciousness.--Meister Eckhart.--An episode of early California life: the squatter riot of 1850 in Sacramento.--Jean Marie Guyau.

Corsica: picturesque, historical, and social: with a sketch of the early life of Napoleon, and an account of the Bonaparte, Paoli, Pozzo di Borgo, and other principal families : Suggested by a tour in the island in 1852 /

Mode of access: Internet.

A Temporary Hometown: Gendered Labor and Social Citizenship in Bremerton, Washington, a Domestic Military Colony

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Measuring community strength and social capital

Five case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia are used as test sites to develop measures of 'community strength' on four domains: Natural Capital; Produced Economic Capital; Human Capital; and Social and Institutional Capital. The paper focuses on the fourth domain. Sample surveys of households in the five case study communities used a survey instrument with scaled items to measure four aspects of social capital - formal norms, informal norms, formal structures and informal structures - that embrace the concepts of trust, reciprocity, bonds, bridges, links and networks in the interaction of individuals with their community inherent in the notion social capital. Exploratory principal components analysis is used to identify factors that measure those aspects of social and institutional capital, while a confirmatory analysis based on Cronbach's alpha explores the robustness of the measures. Four primary scales and 15 subscales are identified when defining the domain of social and institutional capital. Further analysis reveals that two measures - anomie, and perceived quality of life and wellbeing - relate to certain primary scales of social capital.

Measuring community strength and social capital

In 2001/02 five case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia were chosen as test sites to develop measures of community strength on four domains: natural capital; produced economic capital; human capital; and social and institutional capital. Secondary data sources were used to develop measures on the first three domains. For the fourth domain social and institutional capital primary data collection was undertaken through sample surveys of households. A structured approach was devised. This involved developing a survey instrument using scaled items relating to four elements: formal norms; informal norms; formal structures; and informal structures which embrace the concepts of trust, reciprocity, bonds, bridges, links and networks in the interaction of individuals with their community inherent in the notion social capital. Exploratory principal components analysis was used to identify factors that measure those aspects of social and institutional capital, with confirmatory analysis conducted using Cronbach's Alpha. This enabled the construction of four primary scales and 15 sub-scales as a tool for measuring social and institutional capital. Further analyses reveals that two measures anomie and perceived quality of life and wellbeing relate to certain primary scales of social capital.