Social Capital

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Social Capital

Social capital can be described as a concept of social contacts who affect the productivity of individuals and groups. In general this means the actual or potential resources available in a (individual) society who form social structures. Those resources can also be linked to group-membership, which provides each of its members with the backing of the collectivity-owned capital, a ‘credential’ which entitles them to credit, in the various senses of the word. The term Social capital originated by the sociologist Emile Durkheim [1], but got under more attention because of Pierre Bourdieu. [2]. of Pierre Bourdieu used the term social capital to produce or reproduce inequality.

The forms of capital - Bourdieu, p. 51 [3]

Bernard Jansen & Sonny Joziasse