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Culture Documents
SLIDE 2
- Social capital is a term that is recently added
to field of Political Sociology.
- It came from the economic concept of capital
where in it refers to the services and goods
that is produced for the market.
- Furthermore, the economic capital is not
limited to the services and goods it could also
be through money, in this sense economic
capital could also be financial capital. On the
other hand, the labors of the workers including
their trainings which need investment are the
physical capital itself.
- The social concept of capital then is a little
different from the economic concept of capital.
It is lodged neither in individuals nor in
physical implements of production but inheres
in the structure of relations between and
among persons (Coleman, 1994)
- it means that
social capital is also a
resource like economic capital yet it is a
resource that facilitates action.
SLIDE 5
- social capital begins in the assumption that
individuals see organizations and social
institutions as contexts which affect choices
and produce systemic effects
SLIDE 6
1. loan association where everyone would
contribute then they will take trun every month
so everyone could use their central fund. It
requires a high level of trust to to join this
association. The destruction of this social
capital would allow the development of
capitalism
2. used to cut the cost of information using
networks of relations that exist for other
purposes. example, baker system
3. morms are used for social control. Norms
constrain deviant but it also constrain
innovativeness
4. vesting authority in a charismatic leader is a
way of creating social capital
* Italy
- Overview:
different
institution work
ways of how an
Difference in performance is
explained according to
countrys
level
of
(fabric
of
SLIDE 15
- The two underestimated the problem and role
of politics in social organization since they
focused their discussions on culture
* PUTNAM culture is vital in success
of
institutions and state
but fails to
consider
how
the processes of
the
building of the modern
state
has influenced the
formation or preservation of
cultural
traits
* FUKUYAMA Culture is vital in the
development of
industries and
capitalism but
he is not clear on
what
he want politics to do but it
has to
intervene as little as
possible and avoid causing
damage because political
action constantly risks
destroying
social capital
SLIDE 17
- It emphasized small-scale spontaneous
society of today in the rationalized large-scale
society today
the
civicness
values, norms,
institutions and associations
which permit and support civic
commitment)
Features
solidarity,
tolerance
of
social
mutual
trust:
trust,
SLIDE 12
- that is Fukuyamas conclusion in his study
- Civil society (firms, associations, schools,
clubs, trade unipons etc.,) is founded on the
family as the center of any societys cultural
socialization, values and moral precept that is
why I is so important
- Economic efficiency can be obtained inside
groups in which persons work well together on
the basis of common values depending on their
endowment of social capital or the capability of
people to work together in groups and
organizations in pursuit of common goals
- Culture plays a decisive role as
considered an inherited ethical habit
it
is