Producción de capital social en el contexto de las organizaciones pro vida en la ciudad de Cuenca en el año 2019-2020: análisis de caso de la organización Impulso Joven

Abstract

The objective of this research was to understand the dynamics of production and use of social capital in the Impulso Joven organization in the year 2019-2020. To meet this objective, firstly, I analyzed the construction of their identity and organizational values and then formed themselves as a symbolic resource to be mobilized. Second, analyze your social capital through the articulation of both material and symbolic resources that allowed the organization to consolidate. Finally, I established how the organization used its social capital to influence public policies regarding sexual and reproductive rights. To accomplish this task, I used the qualitative approach together with the methodological design of the case study: simple and holistic of the descriptive type. Consequently, the techniques used are the preferred ones of the case study model, which are the semi-structured interview, the documentary review and the non-participant observation. The results reveal that the construction of identity took place in the trainings, which meant a space for negotiation, reflection and optimization of identity to understand the reasons why they are a pro-life group. There, I found the relationship: the higher the level of training there is a greater identification. Then, the identity and the organizational values are symbolic resources that mobilized the efforts of the members so that there is internal cohesion and they can position themselves in the field of sexual and reproductive rights. On the other hand, the material resources show us that the Impulso Joven network is reduced exclusively to relationships with other pro-life groups and actors. However, these relationships provided our subject of study with sufficient resources to influence the spheres of the State. So, finally, at the agency level, we identified that Impulso Joven came to connect with groups that have the exercise of power