Talk:Social capital

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"A wide variety of quite specific benefits flow from the trust, reciprocity, information, and cooperation associated with social networks. Social capital creates value for the people who are connected and - at least sometimes - for bystanders as well". Some restrict it to "trust available to all members of a community (e.g. family, customer base)" - Craig Hubley

Nan Lin's concept of Social Capital has a more individualistic approach: Investment in social relations with expected returns in the marketplace. It may subsume some others concepts such as Bourdieu, Coleman, Flap, Putnam and Eriksson as noted in Nan Lin book ‘Social Capital’ (2001) Cambridge University Press.--Luisrull 11:57, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Putnam argues that participation in voluntary networks create trust among participants that also affect their trust in strangers, and which reinforces social norms. It should nonetheless be stressed that the connection between trust, norms and networks has been questioned in more recent empirical studies. For example, Eric uslaner, Dietlind Stolle and a number of other social scientists fail to find an association between network activity and trust in strangers. Yet, the studies by Stephen Knack, Philip Keefer and Paul Zak show that trust is associated with such features as economic growth, legal quality and corruption while network measures are not. As such, Putnam's policy recommendation - t oencourage network formation - may prove to be entirely ineffective.

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[edit] norms and values

Following cites, that include social capital examples, was purged from article without usable feedback comments! These books are available from the NE-Kansas Library System (NEKLS) and were suggested during ongoing social network analysis research ...

Joseph Bruchac's "Lasting Echoes" (1977) reinforces the native american oral history traditions for conveying intergenerational community values. As savvy organizational development knowledge managers, Coehn & Prusak focus on "Social Talk and Storytelling" - "In Good Company" (2001) - Chapter 5 leads off with a John Milton Paradise Lost quote: Good, the more communicated, the more abundant grows.

In Paul Seabright's "The Company of Strangers" (2004) Part III: Unintended Consequences - From Family Bands to Industrial Cities focused on environmental economics in discussing "Water: Commodity of Social Institution? (Chapter 8).

The "Social Capital" bibliography crafted by M.K. Smith (2001) highlights the blending of interdisciplinary skills needed to establish effective peer group mentorship models championing civic community, organization and education. It includes excerpts from Robert D. Putnam's "Bowling Alone" (2000) Why social capital is important (pp. 288-290).

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RJBurkhart 20:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

None of these is a reference that was used to create this article as has been explained on your talk page. Wikipedia is not a link farm or a bibliography. Rmhermen 22:17, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Added abstracts for each item cited above. Please contribute your experience-based insights.
RJBurkhart 21:05, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] New sections added

Hi I have just gone and added a whole lot of information. This is a work in progress as the headings, sources/citations and order of info in article is not great. I welcome anyone's suggestions but would love if you discuss first before making any major changes as I am still working on this. JenLouise 05:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


Have reverted the last edit because someone changed the [[]] to [] which makes no sense. JenLouise 09:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of POV sections

I have "undeleted" a couple of sentences that were removed in the last few edits but reworded them as they came from texts not from me. I have put a {{fact}} tag in there for me to go back and find the authors I mention. JenLouise 00:17, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] economic value of social capital

I removed from the the addition of the economic value of social capital and just left it value of social capital as social capital really has nothing to do with economic stuff. It is important because of all the value it provides apart from economic value. JenLouise 00:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Bourdieu and Coleman are both clear that social capital is important because it can help develop economic capital. In Bourdieu at least, the ability to transfer to and from economic capital is the whole (social capital is an economic investment that gets paid back later; it's a way to maintain class power in a disguised manner). Most social capital writers stress that social capital is vitally important for the functioning of a capitalist market.

[edit] Definitions

Removed the following sentences from the definition section.

  • Another way of examining the concept is to take the two words that comprise that. Social- meaning relating to human society and how society is organized and Capital defined as: economics material wealth in the form of money or property, identifies the meaning as societal wealth.
  • Studies show that war generates social capital and that social capital can be divided along generational lines. For example the World War II generation has sustained their increased levels of civic engagement and remains the faction most likely to participate in activities such as voting and volunteerism.

The first doesn't actually offer a definition, and needs to be reworded/expanded and referenced before being added back in. The second isn't a definition at all and needs to be moved to a more appropriate section and referenced before being added back in. JenLouise 00:26, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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