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Social Capital (Coleman (SOCIAL CAPITAL (FORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL (But the…

- - - - Financial Capital
        
        Living Capital
        
        Intellectual Capital
        
        Experiemental Capital
        
        Spiritual Capital
        
        Cultural Capital
        
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        • “Spiritual capital contains aspects of intellectual and experiential capital, but is deeper, more personal and less quantifiable. Most of the world’s religions include a concept of ‘the great chain of being’, a holarchic understanding of existence where spiritual attainment (in this context, the accumulation of spiritual capital) leads to different levels of being.” (Roland 2011 pg. 59)
        
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        “We accumulate experiential capital through actually organizing a project in our community, or building a strawbale house, or completing a permaculture design. The most effective way to learn anything comes through a blended gathering of intellectual and experiential capital. My personal experience getting a Master’s degree at Gaia University showed me that experiential learning is essential for my effective functioning in the world: I was able to do projects instead of take classes, and I’m now collaboratively organizing the local permaculture guild and co-running a successful permaculture design firm.2 I can see that human capital is a combination of social, intellectual and experiential capital – all facets of a person that can be gathered and carried in essentially limitless amounts. But there’s one more form of capital that a person can gather and carry inside themselves...” (Roland 2011 pg. 59)
        
        Intellectual capital is best described as a ‘knowledge’ asset. The majority of the current global education system is focused on imparting intellectual capital – whether or not it is the most useful form of capital for creating resilient and thriving communities. Having intellectual capital is touted as the surest way to ‘be successful’.
        
        “A precious metal dealer who attended both Financial Permaculture courses advises, “Rather than US dollars, measure your wealth in ounces [of gold and silver]!” Recognizing that ‘precious’ metals are just another form of financial capital, Catherine Austin Fitts recommends that we diversify and, “Measure your wealth in ounces, acres, and hooves”. Living capital is made up of the animals, plants, water and soil of our land-the true basis for life on our planet.” (Roland 2011 pg. 58-59)
        
        We are most familiar with financial capital: money, currencies, securities and other instruments of the global financial system. The current global society focuses enormous amounts of attention on financial capital. It is our primary tool for exchanging goods and services with other human
      - Influence and connections are social capital. A person or entity who has ‘good social capital’ can ask favors, influence decisions and communicate efficiently. Social capital is of primary importance in politics, business and community organizing.
        
        Social capital is of primary importance in politics, business and community organizing. (Roland, 2011, pg. 58)
- - - - In this paper, I introduce the concept in some generality and then examine its usefulness in a particular context, that of education (Coleman Pp. 4).
  - - - Elements for these two intellectual traditions cannot be brought together in a pastiche. It is necessary to begin with a conceptually coherent framework from one and introduce elements from the other without destroying that coherence
    - - The function identified by the concept of "social capital" is the value of these aspects of social structure to actors as resources that they can use to achieve their interests (Coleman Pp. 8).
      - But the concept of social capital allows taking such resources and showing the way they can be combined with other resources to produce different system-level behavior or, in other cases, different outcomes for individuals.(Coleman,1988, pg. 101)
        
        A prescriptive norm within a collectivity that constitutes an especially important form of social capital is the norm that one should forgo self-interest and act in the interests of the collectivity. A norm of this sort, reinforced by social support, status, honor, and other rewards, is the social capital that builds young nations (and then dissipates as they grow older), strengthens families by leading family members to act selflessly in “the family's" interest, facilitates the development of nascent social movements through a small group of dedicated, inward-looking, and mutually rewarding members, and in general leads persons to work for the public good
    - - “Ordinarily, in the examination of the effects of various factors on achievement in school, "family background" is considered a single entity, distinguished from schooling in its effects. But there is not merely a single "family background"; family background is analytically separable into at least three different components: financial capital, human capital, and social capital. Financial capital is approximately measured by the family's wealth or income” (Coleman, 1988, p.110).
        
        “Social capital within the family that gives the child access to the adult's human capital depends both on the physical presence of adults in the family and on the attention given by the adults to the child. The physical absence of adults may be described as a structural deficiency in family social capital” (Coleman, 1988, p.111).