Coleman — SocialCapitalCreation-1988

65 published claims from this book.

• A bazaar can function as an organization through merchants’ social capital.
• A single club served successively as social venue, job market, and party apparatus
• A working nuclear family lacks structural social capital.
• Across all variables, family mobility most strongly predicts school dropouts.
• Adult-to-child ratio measures family social capital available for schooling.
• Catholic schools have far lower dropout rates than public or private schools.
• Cellular organizational forms are especially potent social capital for opposition and crime.
• Cellular organizations resist suppression by understaffed governments.
• Children need adults’ presence and attention to access parents’ human capital
• Closed communities enforce trust through overlapping religious, family, and residence ties.
• Closure in social relations is necessary for effective norms to emerge
• Communal social capital shapes children’s development beyond family resources.
• Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital.
• Concentrated obligation-credit enhances both individual power and collective output.
• Declining family and community bonds shrink each generation’s human capital.
• Declining family and community capital will reduce human capital unless formal organizations substitute
• Dense social relations sustain many non-fungible outstanding obligations.
• Economic assumptions of atomized action contradict observed social reality
• Economic institutions depend on personal networks that generate trust and enforce norms
• Economists have begun importing sociological insights about social organization into exchange theory
• Effective community norms constrain behavior and suppress beneficial innovation
• Effective norms depend on structural properties beyond any single actor’s control.
• Effective parenting norms depend on closure across generations between families
• Family background splits into financial, human, and social capital that affect achievement differently
• Family social capital components combine such that disadvantaged structure nearly quadruples dropout rates.
• Frequent family moves break the social networks that constitute social capital.
• Hierarchical structures concentrate reusable credit slips of social obligation.
• Human capital extends the concept of physical capital to persons’ skills.
• Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily.
• Intergenerational closure among parents generates social capital and effective sanctions for raising children.
• Obligation-credit structures concentrate power in hierarchical and stratified settings.
• Organizations outlast their original purpose and remain usable as social capital
• Parental education only benefits children when strong family relationships transmit it.
• Parental human capital only benefits a child’s development when family relationships activate it.
• Parents low in formal schooling can still provide high social capital for children’s education
• Rational action theory can analyze social systems without discarding social organization
• Religious communities’ intergenerational closure replicates Catholic-school dropout benefits.
• Religious schools generate social capital that independent private schools lack.
• Religious service attendance predicts lower dropout independent of school religious affiliation.
• Residential mobility varies sharply across school types
• Rotating-credit associations cannot survive in socially disorganized urban settings.
• Rotating-credit associations depend on social trust to function.
• Self-sacrifice for the collective is a key form of social capital.
• Social capital accrues value to others beyond those who create it.
• Social capital acts as a shorthand for unpacking later
• Social capital constrains behavior even as it enables it, reducing innovativeness.
• Social capital exists as obligations, information flows, and sanctioned norms
• Social capital facilitates actions that would otherwise be impossible.
• Social capital grafts social structure onto rational-choice theory.
• Social capital in the surrounding adult community lowers student dropout rates.
• Social capital is activity-specific and even harmful in some contexts.
• Social capital is productive, structural, and defined by its function.
• Social capital makes rational action theory incorporate social structure.
• Social capital valuable for one activity can harm others.
• Social relations maintained for other purposes serve as low-cost channels for acquiring scarce information.
• Social structures carry history and continuity that independently affect economic systems
• Sociological exchange theory failed by abandoning micro-macro transition and importing ad hoc principles.
• Sociological theory lacks a mechanism explaining why actors act.
• Sociology and economics rest on opposite models of the actor.
• Strong parent-child relations are required to transmit parental human capital
• The dropout advantage of private schools persists when controlling for student backgrounds
• The logistic model treats school mobility and school changes as shifts in social capital.
• Trust-based obligations function as exchangeable credit within social relationships.
• Trust-based reciprocal favors operate like financial capital
• Trustworthiness as social capital produces benefits the trusted actor does not capture.