Social capital acts as a shorthand for unpacking later

Evidence

Although, for these purposes, social capital constitutes an unanalyzed concept, it signals to the analyst and to the reader that something of value has been produced for those actors who have this resource available and that the value depends on social organization. It then becomes a second stage in the analysis to unpack the concept, to discover what components of social organization contribute to the value produced. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 76

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the analytical stance: social capital used as an unanalyzed signal first, decomposed later.
• XREF: connects to: Social capital is analytically valuable as an unanalyzed placeholder inviting later unpacking.

Broader Connections

• Social capital is analytically valuable as an unanalyzed placeholder inviting later unpacking. #expands (0.95)