Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily.

Evidence

Similarly, the decision to move from a community so that the father, for example, can take a better job may be entirely correct from the point of view of that family. But, because social capital consists of relations among persons, other persons may experience extensive losses by the severance of those relations, a severance over which they had no control. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 210

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Frequent family moves break the social networks that constitute social capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 177; Household mobility decisions impose social losses on community members who had no say.; Social outcomes depend on joint causation, making individualist rule-following wrong for policy (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Household mobility decisions impose social losses on community members who had no say. #exemplifies (0.92)
• Social outcomes depend on joint causation, making individualist rule-following wrong for policy #expands (0.72)