"Social capital is 'the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.'"
The role of trust in creating and maintaining social cohesion, stability, and prosperity, and how it affects communities, institutions, and nations.
Definition of trust: This involves understanding what trust means in the context of society, including the different types of trust such as personal trust, institutional trust, and societal trust.
Importance of trust: This involves understanding why trust is important in society and the impact it has on social, economic, and political well-being.
Trust building: This involves understanding the dynamics of building trust, including the role of honesty, transparency, communication, and consistency.
Trust repair: This involves understanding how trust can be repaired when it is broken and the role of apologies, restitution, and forgiveness in the process.
Trustworthiness: This involves understanding what makes people and institutions trustworthy, including the role of integrity, competence, and consistency.
Social capital: This involves understanding the role of social capital in building and maintaining trust in society, including the role of networks, norms, and institutions.
Collective action: This involves understanding how trust enables collective action and cooperation in society, including the role of social movements, civil society, and public institutions.
Social order: This involves understanding how trust contributes to social order and the maintenance of social norms, including the role of legal systems, informal norms, and cultural values.
Democracy: This involves understanding how trust is essential for democratic governance, including the role of institutions, public opinion, and the media.
Trust in organizations: This involves understanding the role of trust in organizations, including the role of leadership, culture, and communication.
Trust in technology: This involves understanding the relationship between trust and technology, including the role of trust in online interactions, privacy, and security.
Trust in international relations: This involves understanding the role of trust in international relations, including the role of diplomacy, institutions, and cultural differences.
Trust and diversity: This involves understanding the role of trust in diverse societies, including the role of intergroup contact, identity, and cultural competence.
Trust and inequality: This involves understanding the impact of inequality on trust in society, including the role of social and economic disparities, exclusion, and discrimination.
Trust and behavior: This involves understanding the relationship between trust and human behavior, including the role of emotions, cognition, and social norms.
Interpersonal trust: This refers to trust between individuals, where one person believes that another person will act in a consistent and trustworthy manner.
Institutional trust: This refers to trust in formal institutions, such as government, the legal system, and regulatory bodies.
Trust in expertise: This refers to trust in the knowledge and expertise of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists.
Group trust: This refers to trust within a particular group, such as a family, team, or community.
Organizational trust: This refers to trust within an organization, such as a company, corporation, or government agency.
Trust in technology: This refers to trust in the reliability and safety of technology, such as computers, smartphones, and other electronic devices.
Cultural trust: This refers to trust between people of different cultural backgrounds, where mutual understanding and respect are necessary.
Ethical trust: This refers to trust in the ethical principles and values of a person or organization.
Political trust: This refers to trust in the political system, including the elected officials and the decision-making process.
Social trust: This refers to trust in society as a whole, where individuals believe that others will act in a responsible and fair manner.
"It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity."
"Social capital is a measure of the value of resources, both tangible (e.g., public spaces, private property) and intangible (e.g., actors, human capital, people)."
"[Social capital measures] the impact that ideal creators have on the resources involved in each relationship, and on larger groups."
"Some have described it as a form of capital that produces public goods for a common purpose."
"Social capital has been used to explain the improved performance of diverse groups, the growth of entrepreneurial firms, superior managerial performance, enhanced supply chain relations, the value derived from strategic alliances, and the evolution of communities."
"Social capital measures the value of tangible resources such as public spaces and private property."
"Social capital measures the value of intangible resources such as actors, human capital, and people."
"[Social capital enables] that society to function effectively."
"It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships."
"[Shared understanding within social capital includes] shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity."
"Social capital has been used to explain [...] the evolution of communities."
"[Shared sense of identity within social capital includes] a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity."
"[Social capital explains] the value derived from strategic alliances."
"Social capital has been used to explain the growth of entrepreneurial firms."
"Social capital has been used to explain enhanced supply chain relations."
"This does not align with how it has been measured."
"Social capital has been used to explain the improved performance of diverse groups."
"Social capital is a measure of the value of resources."
"Social capital includes both tangible and intangible resources."