This research is multi-years research. In the first year, it has been finding a lot of information from three different classified high schools in Yogyakarta. And
the aim is to look at the role of the components of social capital in improving the quality of schools. At the end of year this research are expected to generate social
capital development model for improving the quality of other schools.
B. SOCIAL CAPITAL
Social capital for the first time introduced by Lyda Judson Hanifan, who is an educator in the United States and the concept was recorded into book in 1916,
entitled The Rural School community. At that time the first thing was discussed how the people can keep an eye on the progress of the school. The mean of Social
capital is not about wealth or money, but it implies as the important assets or resources resources in social life.
Cohen and Prusak 2001 believe that social capital is a collection of active relationships between people: trust, mutual understanding, and shared values and
behaviors that bind the members of a network and community that have possibility for cooperation. Robert Putnam 1993 considers social capital is as a
value mutual trust between community members and the community leaders. Social capital is a social institution that involves a network, norms norms, and
social trust. it encourages social collaboration coordination and cooperation for common interest. Furthermore Putnam interpret horizontal association give not
only desirable outcome revenue expected but also undesirable outcome additional results.
Based on Francis Fukuyama 2002, social capital are values or norms that is shared between people that increase social cooperation, spontaneous action in
actual social relationships. According to Fukuyama, the transition from an industrial society towards informational society ties more sever social and give
birth to many social pathologies, such as individualism, competition, conflicts between groups, the decline in the level of trust among members of society. Thus
the social capital that can only be accessed through relationships, unlike physical capital equipment, technology, etc. or human capital such as education, skills,
which is basically an individual possess. Social capital is relying on a network, a relationship which can be accessed whom, how often, with regard to what, what
kind of interaction, it is based on mutual trust mutual trust. Through a high level of confidence, individual and group will get benefit and success in that
relationship.
C. THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN IMPROVING THE
