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This article establishes that there are significant social influences on the decisions made by individuals about whether to trust others. These social interactions effects may arise from exogenous-environmental characteristics or from endogenous effects that make people conform to the particular...
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Many social democrats believe that the failure of past government interventions in social and economic life can be explained by the absence of social capital, and that government must intervene to create that social capital. This argument is comprehensively undermined in this Hobart Paper. The...
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This chapter applies social identity analysis to social capital theory in order to explain trust and conflict in social … networks. It reformulates Putnam’s bridging-bonding social capital distinction in terms of the relational social identities …-categorical social identities distinction, and represents individuals as socially embedded by explaining them in social identity terms …
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The underlying social framework in which we live seems to becoming less social. The connections we have between individuals, businesses, and government has become impersonal and distant. If this is a valid trend of society then our connection with our elected officials may be a lot less...
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We model networks of relational (or implicit) contracts, exploring how sanctioning power and equilibrium conditions … larger networks. …
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Despite numerous studies on the social and political impact of refugees in Europe, we have very little systematic evidence on the impact of refugee settlement on social cohesion in the developing world. Using data gathered in Northern Lebanon, we show that increased salience of the "refugee...
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's friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity and religion. We find that people who have friendship networks with …
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