Social capital varies along intensity, formality, and multiplexity dimensions.

Evidence

Some forms involve repeated, intensive, multistranded networks—like a group of steelworkers who meet for drinks every Friday after work and see each other at mass on Sunday—and some are episodic, single stranded, and anonymous, like the faintly familiar face you see several times a month in the supermarket checkout line. Some types of social capital, like a Parent-Teacher Association, are formally organized, with incorporation papers, regular meetings, a written constitution, and connection to a national federation, whereas others, like a pickup basketball game, are more informal. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 47

Categorization

• DEFINE: Multiplexity and formality as axes beyond the bonding-bridging dichotomy.
• XREF: connects to: Social transformation depends on care networks plus formal mobilization structures — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 443; Social capital is variously defined as relationships, networks, and cooperation-enabling capacity. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 407; Social capital exists as obligations, information flows, and sanctioned norms — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 236 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Bridging social capital declines when online affinity groups narrow communication #exemplifies (0.90) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 589
• Social capital divides into bonding and bridging forms that aid cooperation. #expands (0.85) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 48
• Social capital consists of networks, not the trust they generate #expands (0.78)
• Social capital exists as obligations, information flows, and sanctioned norms #expands (0.75) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 236
• Social capital is productive, structural, and defined by its function. #qualifies (0.74)
• Social capital is variously defined as relationships, networks, and cooperation-enabling capacity. #expands (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 407
• Social trust is an outcome and byproduct of social capital #expands (0.72) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 41