Social capital works without assuming individuals share common-oriented goals.
Evidence
Social capital allows republicans to eschew any need of assuming that individuals are motivated by commonoriented goals. It is true, social capital can transform individual motivations. Furthermore, “the norm that one should forgo self-interest and act in the interests of collectivity” (Coleman 1988, S104) is a form of social capital. But this constitutes a rather indirect process, as prominent analyses of social capital operate with individuals with heterogeneous interests (E. Ostrom 1994, 559). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 35
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader republicanism-liberalism debate and to Putnam’s and Ostrom’s shared-resource governance literature. — connects to: Check-writing membership without member contact creates no social capital — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 160
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 35
Related
- Social capital’s self-reinforcing strength does not explain how it emerges originally. (similarity 0.82)
- Social capital enables citizens to contest policies endangering non-domination. (similarity 0.81)
- Social capital grows from participation, not prior endowment alone. (similarity 0.81)
- Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build (similarity 0.80)