Abstract
On the basis of seven questions asked in the AsiaBarometer survey conducted by the author in 2003 in ten Asian societies, Uzbekistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, China, Korea and Japan, the author analyzes the key dimensions of social capital, permeating the ten societies, (1) general trust in interpersonal relations, (2) trust in merit-based utility; and (3) trust in social system and comes up with the five groups of societies on the basis of three major dimensions of social capital and comes up with the five groups of societies (1) China and Vietnam, (2) Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan, (3) Malaysia, Myanmar and India, (4) Japan and Korea, and (5) Thailand. Conceptual examinations are also done in relation to the work done by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Weltzel and broad empirical corroborations are noted.
The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2305-7_13
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This chapter was originally published in the Japanese Journal of Political Science 5 (1) 197–211 and is reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.
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Discriminant analysis predicts membership in two or more mutually exclusive groups and compares the match between the predicted and actual groups. In our case, the actual groups have been derived from hierarchical cluster analysis, so the resulting match is expected to be approximately 100%. In short, discriminant analysis helps us check the validity of grouping that took place in hierarchical cluster analysis.
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Inoguchi, T. (2017). Social Capital in Ten Asian Societies. In: Inoguchi, T., Tokuda, Y. (eds) Trust with Asian Characteristics. Trust, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2305-7_2
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