Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute

Evidence

Because the social structural conditions that overcome the problems of supplying these public goods-that is, strong families and strong communities-are much less often present now than in the past, and promise to be even less present in the future, we can expect that, ceteris paribus, we confront a declining quantity of human capital embodied in each successive generation. The obvious solution appears to be to attempt to find ways of overcoming the problem of supply of these public goods, that is, social capital employed for the benefit of children and youth. This very likely means the substitution of some kind of formal organization for the voluntary and spontaneous social organization that has in the past been the major source of social capital available to the young. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 231

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘formal organization substitutes for spontaneous social organization’ prediction resonates against the reader’s Coleman-network-closure framework, where state institutions fail where informal ties dominate. — connects to: Social capital in the surrounding adult community lowers student dropout rates. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 198; Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 200; A working nuclear family lacks structural social capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 154 (+2 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: the substitution of formal organizations for eroded informal community — what kind of formal structures can actually manufacture social capital, and what they then fail to provide.

Related

• Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. (similarity 0.88)
• Declining family and community bonds shrink each generation’s human capital. (similarity 0.88)
• A working nuclear family lacks structural social capital. (similarity 0.86)
• Social capital in the surrounding adult community lowers student dropout rates. (similarity 0.84)
• Communal social capital shapes children’s development beyond family resources. (similarity 0.82)
• Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education (similarity 0.81)
• Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital (similarity 0.80)
• Parental human capital only benefits a child’s development when family relationships activate it. (similarity 0.80)
• Children need adults’ presence and attention to access parents’ human capital (similarity 0.80)
• Family background splits into financial, human, and social capital that affect achievement differently (similarity 0.79)
• Social capital is productive, structural, and defined by its function. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A working nuclear family lacks structural social capital. #exemplifies (0.80) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 154
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions #qualifies (0.75)