Cellular organizational forms are especially potent social capital for opposition and crime.

Evidence

The study circles themselves constitute a form of social capital-a cellular form of organization that appears especially valuable for facilitating opposition in any political system intolerant of dissent. Even where political dissent is tolerated, certain activities are not, whether the activities are politically motivated terrorism or simple crime. The organization that makes possible these activities is an especially potent form of social capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 54

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framework of network closure — the same dense ties that let Coleman-style communities enforce norms are what let clandestine cells evade them; oppositional social capital as mirror image of communal social capital. — connects to: Organizations outlast their original purpose and remain usable as social capital — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 129; Cellular organizations resist suppression by understaffed governments. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 54
• SEED: Essay angle: the double-edged nature of social capital — the same structural form (cellular organization) serves democratic civic engagement, terrorism, and crime, undermining the assumption that social capital is inherently civic.

Related

• Cellular organizations resist suppression by understaffed governments. (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• Cellular organizations resist suppression by understaffed governments. #expands (0.88) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 54
• Organizations outlast their original purpose and remain usable as social capital #expands (0.80) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 129