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Producing these forms of capital improves our ability to actually take advantage of opportunities to change systems in the real world, a world in which plural forms of capital are shrinking.

interests than by civic education and who are made capable of common purpose and mutual action by virtue of their civic attitudes and participatory institutions rather than their altruism or their good nature.”

Solidarity, trust, and cooperation make up the stuff now often called social capital. Without it, a society wouldn’t last long. The creation of social capital among members of a society is possible only if shared norms align their expectations, habituate them to exercise self-control, instill in them a unity of purpose, and incentivize them to tran

Political theorists such as Robert Putnam use the term ‘social capital’ to describe the wealth of trust and reciprocity that is created within social groups as a result of their networks of relationships.