POL355Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Capital, Contact Hypothesis, Population Ageing
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Social capital: based on who you know, is not equally distributed, depends on your degree of in uence over things/people, etc. What the author de nes social capital as, is: features of social life like networks, norms, and trusts that enable participants to act together more effectively to pursue shared objectives. Your social networks are people who you trust, have solid connections with, etc. Not just people you know or are in contact with. Social contracts and capital affect the productivity of individuals and groups. Healthy people have more friends so long as they"re healthy friendships. Bonding social capital: you are reaching out to people who are very similar to you, be it religiously, institutionally, educationally, culturally, etc. Bridging social capital: you are reaching out to people who are unlike you in some important ways, be it racially, ethnically, religiously, etc. There is some important marker in identity that is not overlapping in this capital.
