Community Capacity Building (CCB) for Facilitation of Marriage for Young Adults via Social Capital

Abstract

Community capacity building (CCB) is one of the important structures in modern empowerment area. Among social structures involved in CCB, social capital, according to the definition, is people’s non-materialistic accumulation in their social relations network that acts as a common good to expand the capabilities of individual in societal activities. These two structures can be put together to form a solution within marriage.  This article studies the aspects of community capacity building (CCB) and social capital, the way they influence the process of mate selection and marriage, and how to improve the status of marriage through the social capital. The present systematic review including the review of articles related to the community capacity building (CCB), social capital and marriage (with keywords, community capacity building, social capital, social trust, social networks, social exchange, marriage, fear of marriage, the effective factors in marriage, social facilitation of marriage, social capital in marriage) in scientific bases of Google Scholar, Pubmed, Science direct, Elsevier, Ebsco, Proquest, SID, IranDoc, PsychInfo, RoseNet, ISI Web of Science from 2000 to 20 January of 2014, was conducted in English and Persian sources. Entry criteria were comprised of the relevance to the keywords of the research, quantitative aspects of the research, and a score of at least 2 in Jadad Scale. Based on research obtained from 658 sources, 141 sources were accepted and the main sources used in this article were 46. In this paper, after reviewing the basic concepts and definitions of community capacity building (CCB) and social capital, the role of social capital in marriage, the components of social capital (social sharing, social networking, social trust), ways of increasing social capital, and social capital facilitated through marriage have been examined.