This is question 1 for "Bowling Alone" off of the study guide Prof. Whitmire emailed out last night.
Social Capital: What is this? Can you define it?
social capital is "developing networks of relationships that weave individuals into groups and communities"
This topic was covered in lecture on Tuesday, January 27 (which is where the above quotes are taken from) and appears on page 19 of the article, which is the first one in our reader.
The article describes social capital as:
"connections among individuals - social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them. In that sense social capital si closely related to what some have called "civic virtue." The difference is that "social capital" calls attention to the fact that civic virtue is most powerful when embedded in a dense network of reciprocal social relations. A society of many virtuous but isolated indivuduals is not necessarily rich in social capital."
Social capital, as shown in the article, emphasizes how our lives are made more productive by social capital.
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