Much attention to revitalization in central urban neighborhoods focuses upon economic development and the infusion of economic capital. Throughout the United States, many organizations and communities have sent their “best and brightest” representatives to various types of leadership training programs. Leadership training, through promising as an investment in human capital, warrants greater attention as a catalyst for social capital. This study explores the potential for social capital development in an ethnically diverse community facing rapid growth, high levels of poverty, unemployment, severe economic disparity and serious environmental threats. Will individuals identified as community leaders, if exposed to general leadership skills training and substantive information about current problems facing the community, develop consensus over goals and a unified a commitment to work together to addressed community problems? Although preliminary results suggest orchestrated cohorts may play less of a role in evolving value consensus than previous personal affiliations like ethnicity, participants reported enhanced relationships.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AllportGordon W., PhilipVernon and GardnerLindzey (1960). A Study of Values.Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
2.
Ball-RokeachSandra and WilliamE. Loges (1994). “Choosing Equality: The Correspondence Between Attitudes about Race and the Value of Equality.”Journal of Social Issues50 (Winter): 9–18.
3.
Ball-RokeachSandra, MiltonRokeach and JoelW. Grube (1984). The Great American Value Test. New York: Free Press.
4.
ColemanJames S. (1988). “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology94 (supplement): S95–121.
5.
ChangHedy Nai-Lin (1997). “Democracy, Diversity, and Social Capital.” National Civic Review86 (Summer): 141–148.
6.
DruckmanDaniel and BenjaminJ. Broome (1991). “Value Differences and Conflict Resolution: Familiarity or Liking.” Journal of Conflict Resolution35 (December): 581–587.
7.
El Paso Greater Chamber of Commerce (1997). Leadership El Paso Application.El Paso, TX.
8.
EtzioniAmitai (1993). The Spirit of community.New York: Touchstone.
9.
FredericksenPatricia J. and RosanneLondon (1998). “Organizational Capacity and the Co-Production of Public Policy: Are We on the Edge of an Abyss. . . or a Breakthrough?” Presented at the American Society of Public Administration Annual Conference, May 9–13, 1998, Seattle, Washington.
10.
GoldfarbAlan (August 14, 1997). Chair, 1997 Leadership El Paso Executive Committee.Interview with Patricia J. Fredericksen, El Paso, TX.
11.
GrubeJoel W. (1982). “Can Values Be Manipulated Arbitrarily? A Replication that Controls for Regression Effects.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin8 (September): 528–533.
12.
GrubeJoel W., DanielM. MaytonII, and SandraBall-Rokeach (1994). “Inducing Change in Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Belief System Theory and the Method of Value Self-Confrontation.” Journal of Social Issues50 (Winter): 153–174.
13.
HooverKenneth (1997). The Power of Identity Politics in a New Key.NJ: Chatham House
14.
KingCheryl Simrell and CamillaStivers (1998). “Strategies for an Anti-Government Era,” in Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers (eds.). Government is Us. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
15.
KluckhohnClyde (1951). “Value and Value-orientations in the Theory of Action,” in Talcott Parsons and Edward A. Shils (eds.). Toward a General Theory of Action.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
16.
KristiansenConnie M. and MarkP. Zanna (1991). “Value Relevance and the Value-Attitude Relations: Value Expressiveness Versus Halo Effects.” Basic and Applied Psychology12 (4): 471–483.
17.
KristiansenConnie M. and MarkP. Zanna (1994). “The Rhetorical Use of Values To Justify Social And Intergroup Attitudes.” Journal of Social Issues50 (Winter): 47–66.
18.
LangelandLinda (August 8, 2000). Director of Education, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC.Telephone interview with Patricia Fredericksen, Boise, ID.
19.
LappeFrancis Moore and PaulMartin Du Bois (1997). “Building Social Capital Without Looking Backward.” National Civic Review86 (Summer): 119–128.
20.
PierceJohn C., MaryAnn Steger, BrentS. Steel and NicholasP. Lovrich (1997). Citizens, Political Communication, and Interest Groups:Environmental Organizations in Canada and the United States.Westport, CT: Prager.
21.
PutnamRobert D. (1994). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
22.
RamsayMeredith (1996). Community Culture and Economic Development:The Social Roots of Local Action.NY: State University of New York Press.
23.
RittelHorst W. J. and MelvinWebber (1973). “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning.” Policy Sciences4: 155–169.
24.
RokeachMilton (1960). The Open and Closed Mind:Investigations into the Nature of Belief Systems and Personality Systems.New York: Basic Books.
25.
RokeachMilton (1968). Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values:A Theory of Organization and Change.San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
26.
RokeachMilton (1973). The Nature of Human Values.New York: Free Press.
27.
SchwartzShalom H. (1994). “Are There Universal Aspects in the Structure and Contents of Human Values?” Journal of Social Issues. 50 (Winter): 19–46.
28.
ScottWilliam A. (1965). Values and Organizations.Chicago: Rand McNally.
29.
TriandisHarry C. (1995). “A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Diversity,” in MartinM. Chemers, StuartOskamp and MarkA. Costanzo (eds.). Diversity in Organizations:New Perspectives for a Changing Workplace.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
VillarrealRoberto E. (1990). “The Politics of Entrepreneurship: Mexican American Leadership in a Border Setting.” Journal of Borderlands Studies2 (2): 75–84.
35.
WalkerJack L. (1969) “Diffusion of Innovations Among the American States.” American Political Science Review63 (September): 880–899.
36.
WilliamsRichard M. (1968). “The Concept of Values,” in DavidL. Sills (ed.). International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences16. New York: Free Press.
37.
YankelovichDaniel (1991). Coming to Public Judgment:Making Democracy Work in a Complex World.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press
