Abstract:

Social capital is a very important value for the person himself and the society. The presence of this value provides a positive contribution while in its absence, many negative situations are likely to occur. This study aims to determine and compare the social capital levels of students who do not participate in the school team with athletes who are licensed and with demographic characteristics. For this purpose, the state adapted to Turkish for primary education secondary students was used by Ardahan and Ezici (2014) by the "Students of Primary Education Social Capital Scale" developed by Huang (2008). The work group of the research carried out in the screening model consists of 198 students studying in the high school in the Gaziantep Islahiye district. As the obtained data show normal distribution, in addition to visual statistics, the independent sample test and one-way variance analysis were used. According to the research findings, there was a significant difference between the social capital levels of students and the variability of being in the school sports team in the school sports team in all sub-dimensions of the scale. While the average social capital levels of female students are higher than men in the four underdimensions of the scale in the gender variable, there is a significant difference for women in the underdimensions of "Requesting Assistance from Teacher" only. There is no difference between the students in the classroom level variable, but there is no difference between the students in the school team, and there is no difference between the athletes in the school team, and there is no difference between the students in the classroom level variable and there is no difference between the students in the classroom level variable and there is no difference between the students in the classroom level variable and there is no difference between the students. There was a significant difference in classes. According to these findings, in order for students to develop their social capital levels in the educational and educational environment, it is recommended to create sports environments in which they can only unite and develop as a whole (cognitive, sensual and psychomotor) except in the environments they are obligatory academic concerns.