The Effect of Social Capital on Security in Public Spaces

The Islamic school of thought has presented a new approach in theorizing for social security, which can be interpreted as a "spatial approach". "Space" in this approach, is the structure of socialized security which includes four spaces namely; individual, collective, political and security. One of the influential variables in the collective space is social capital. The main objective of the study is to strengthen the local discourse of security through the examination of the components of social capital in the collective space of the discourse of security. In this study, researchers tried to answer the question  that; what is the effect of social capital on security in the public space? In order to answer the research question, the components of Islamic Iranian social capital were obtained using the meta-analysis method. The final components obtained are: belief, cognitive, structural, communication (relational), awareness, social trust, social participation, norms, rules and social rules. Then, the whatness of security in the collective space was scrutinized, then its indicators and dimensions were pointed out, and the influence of social capital components in Iranian Islamic discourse on this space, its indicators and dimensions was analyzed. The findings of the study indicated that each of the components of social capital in Iranian Islamic discourse can have different effects on the entire collective space or its indicators and dimensions in accordance with their characteristics.