Frequent family moves break the social networks that constitute social capital.
Evidence
The effect of this social capital outside the family on educational outcomes can be seen by examining outcomes for children whose parents differ in the particular source of social capital discussed earlier, intergenerational closure. There is not a direct measure of intergenerational closure in the data, but there is a proximate indicator. This is the number of times the child has changed schools because the family moved. For families that have moved often, the social relations that constitute social capital are broken at each move. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 177
Categorization
- XREF: Geographic mobility destroys embedded social ties; this connects to broader work on residential instability and community disinvestment. — connects to: Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 210; Social capital’s benefits mostly accrue to others, not its creator.
Related
- Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily. (similarity 0.89)
- Across all variables, family mobility most strongly predicts school dropouts. (similarity 0.83)
- The logistic model treats school mobility and school changes as shifts in social capital. (similarity 0.82)
- Residential mobility varies sharply across school types (similarity 0.82)
- Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education (similarity 0.80)
- Communal social capital shapes children’s development beyond family resources. (similarity 0.80)
- Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. (similarity 0.79)
- Social capital in the surrounding adult community lowers student dropout rates. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily.
#expands(0.90) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 210 - Social capital’s benefits mostly accrue to others, not its creator.
#corroborates(0.80)