SOCITAL CAPITAL AS MECHANISM THE SURVIVAL OF THE TRIBE ALIENATED MANDRAS IN BENGKULU INDONESIA

Abstract

This research focused  the function of social capital on a community tribe Mandras,  alienated  living  in  the  middle  of  the  wilderness  in  the  Provinci  of Bengkulu based on theories Nan-Lin perspective.This study uses qualitative methods with an ethnographic approach. Data  collected by partisipant-obsevation  through direct  observation and  in-depth  interview  and documentation. Data analyzed  by interactive based on interprestasi in inductive by approach  emik. The research found that Mandras tribal person who lives in the wilderness develop the social life of relatively established and they as officials of the forest. For they woodlands having spiritual, the value of social, moral and economic. On that basis, the elements of social capital-forming The Mandras is transformed from the resource of the value derived from customary rules that are singular. The concept of social capital theory of Nan-Lin is a resource within the social structure facilitating social networks to access the aim of action for tribal people Mandras, is seen as a function of survival mechanism was not linear, but rather the dialectic of social structure and the purpose of  the  act.  Social  capital  that  lies  in  social  structures, social  networks that  are accessed by the tribe for the purpose of the action Mandras a factor controlling the whole of community life of the tribe is the Mandras of transformation of social capital.

Keywords. Social capital, Social Structure and Social Action.