Social trust and civic engagement co-vary across societies as one underlying factor.

Evidence

Across the 35 countries in this survey, social trust and civic engagement are strongly correlated; the greater the density of associational membership in a society, the more trusting its citizens. Trust and engagement are two facets of the same underlying factor—social capital. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone, 59

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Putnam’s broader social capital thesis that various forms of civic connectedness cluster together, and to later critiques questioning whether trust and membership really load on one factor. — connects to: Civic engagement traditions precede and enable socioeconomic modernization, not the reverse. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 14; Dense civic networks enable trust, reciprocity and collective action. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 17; Parental involvement in PTAs functions as an especially productive form of civic engagement. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 33 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 59

Related

• Dense civic networks enable trust, reciprocity and collective action. (similarity 0.87)
• Widespread civility and flourishing civil society reduce to shared personal trust (similarity 0.85)
• Civic virtue and mutual personal trust are the same achievement (similarity 0.85)
• Trust functions as social capital enabling collective purposes. (similarity 0.84)
• Social trust is an outcome and byproduct of social capital (similarity 0.83)
• Trust and social fabric are mutually constitutive and two-way (similarity 0.82)
• Civic engagement traditions precede and enable socioeconomic modernization, not the reverse. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust emerges as a result of cooperation rather than an element of social capital. (similarity 0.81)
• Mutual trust predates and is prerequisite for civic virtue. (similarity 0.80)
• Societal structure, not just individual strategy, shapes personal trust (similarity 0.80)
• Social capital is variously defined as relationships, networks, and cooperation-enabling capacity. (similarity 0.79)
• Social capital grows from participation, not prior endowment alone. (similarity 0.79)
• Robert Putnam — Bowling Alone America’s Declining Social Capital (similarity 0.79)
• Virtue only produces social benefit when embedded in reciprocal networks (similarity 0.78)
• American civil society vibrancy has notably declined over recent decades (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Trust emerges as a result of cooperation rather than an element of social capital. #qualifies (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 409
• Widespread civility and flourishing civil society reduce to shared personal trust #contradicts (0.80)
• Trust and social fabric are mutually constitutive and two-way #qualifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 502
• Societal structure, not just individual strategy, shapes personal trust #expands (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 188
• Social trust is an outcome and byproduct of social capital #qualifies (0.72) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 41
• Trust functions as social capital enabling collective purposes. #qualifies (0.70) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 399
• A society’s relational mobility explains cross-cultural differences in trust, well-being, and self-disclosure #qualifies (0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1642