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Objectives: The Social capital can be considered as one of the major concept of development-centre approved in studying of poverty. The importance of these two social variables is to the extent that in both modern theoretical and practical approach, the production of social capital is considered as one of the most useful strategies in poverty alleviation. Therefore based on the importance of the role of the social capital and its direct relation ship with the promotion of social welfare and poverty alleviation, we test this hypothesis through a comparative study of this variable for the homilies sponsored by the Committee Emdad Imam Khomaini in Ghazvin as representative of families under poverty and rich residents of the city. This study test the hypothesis stating that there is a significant difference in the average of social capital and its components (social trust, social relations and participation and organizational membership) between the poor and the rich families. Method: This is a survey - based study .The data is collected through questioner. The target group under the statistical study is the families sponsored by the Committee Emdad Imam Khomaini out of which a group of 311 families from the poor and 50 families from the rich have been selected by Cochran equation through random analysis a system. Data processing and the statistical analysis are conducted through the spss software package. Findings: The findings of the study show that there is a significant difference in social capital and its components between the rich and the poor. Also the finding shows that poverty has a negative strong correlation with the social capital and the poor have lower average of social capital and its all components. The social capital is approximated as the following regression analysis (equation): Social capital= 68.04+9.10 (welfare situation of family) +2.450 (gender of families chief Results: This research shows that the amount of social capital for individuals and groups is depended to the situation of poverty and privation. Poverty has a negative impact on social capital. The outcome of this relationship is that the effort for increasing the amount of social capital may has useful impacts on poverty reduction because, social capital in regard of convertibility process of capitals, can provide the necessary conditions for promoting the welfare level of the poor and private actors.

Keywords: Participation, Poverty, Social Capital, Social Relations, Social Trust

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