KORELASI MODAL SOSIAL DENGAN COPING STRATEGY: STUDI KASUS RUMAH TANGGA PETANI KARET DI DESA MARGO MULYO KECAMATAN PONDOK KUBANG KABUPATEN BENGKULU TENGAH

This paper discussed about how the farmer household built coping strategies during crisis period, especially
in utilizing their social capitals. By which social capital were identified as social trust, participation in
association, collective norm, and social network. The fluctuation of rubber price they taken caused them to
adapt several strategies which contributed to minimize their condition became more unexpected. The aims
of this research were to describe the social capital of rubber farmer, to explore how the farmer built their
coping strategies, and to analize the correlation between social capital and coping strategy. The data were
analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman Correlation. The result showed that social capital had
high category. The coping strategies that farmer did were classified into three dimensions i.e strategies
livelihood diversification, strategy in reducing household expenditures, and other strategies. The last,
fastors which corelated with coping strategy were, the trust was negative (very low), the level of
participation in association was positive (low), the collective norms was positive (very low), and the social
network was positive (low).