抄録
There is considerable debate over what factors are related with regional gaps in social capital. We aimed to verify the contextual determinants of the regional gaps in social capital in an urban area. We analyzed this problem mainly based on survey data accumulated by Inaba (2012), who investigated residents' social capital in nine districts in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The study also used social area analysis and undertook categorical regression analysis. The results show that the more socially heterogeneous, safer, and with a greater number of families and children a community is, the more social capital it possesses. Furthermore, the regional difference of the contextual determinants lead to the impact of a regional gap of residents’ social capital in central Tokyo, the Shitamachi area, and the Yamanote area. Therefore, the regional gap of social capital in Tokyo depends on the greater difference between rather than individual socioeconomic status.
