Why does strong social connection not guarantee a beneficial public outcome?
Answer & explanation
Networks can coordinate exclusion or harmful activity as well as cooperation.
The capacity to act together can be directed toward different goals. Benefits to insiders can coexist with costs to others. Assessing social capital therefore includes asking whom the connections help or exclude.
Bowling Alone
Chapter 1 · Thinking about Social Change in America
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