Community Capital Social Capital

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Community Capital(Social Capital)

• By Missy Callon, Julie Dobson, Katie Donovan,
  Lauren Hall, and Colleen McGrath

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Definition

• Banked good will that helps build trust between
  various groups within a community.
• The networks, norms, and trust that facilitate
  coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.

Public Good
Where social capital exists,people can come
together to understand what needs to be done and
work to accomplish need tasks
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Historical Example

• Hurricane Katrina

• September 11

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Robert Putnam Making Democracy Work
Working together is easier in a community
blessed with a substantial stock of social
capital
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Importance to Democracy

• Community comes together and can accomplish more
• Creates a civil society
• Better government because of social trusts

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I, Martin Luther King, Jr. am writing in
response to your letter. First off, I want to
commend you all on the current state of equality
in your country. But truly I want to focus on the
aspect of community capital. In the prime of my
career, I made major advancements in the field of
Civil Rights. Luckily, my work continued after my
life was taken early. The reason I started on my
mission for justice was because I grew up during
the oppressive time of Jim Crow laws. Also, the
environment of living with two devout preachers
for African American rights, my father and
grandfather, this made it an innate
characteristic for me to speak out about my
opinions. My children were a main vantage point
to work so relentlessly for equality because I
wanted them to be judged by the content of their
character, rather than the color of their skin.
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• Through the close-knit communities of church
  followers in my church, this made it easy to
  disseminate the message to resist, and no longer
  accept the oppression we were under. I felt this
  message of reformation was the job God was
  calling me to carry out. Once we had the churchs
  support, the whole of the Afro-community was
  taken by storm and united by the common enemy of
  injustice. In this community there were smaller
  groups that made the mission more personalized
  and allowed for mutual support and aid. As your
  current political science thinker Robert Putnam
  said in accord with the goals of community
  capital it is such an influential thing to have
  in society because it changes ones I to We,
  enhancing the participants taste for
  collective benefits. For the future, I wish for
  you to look onward and see the day that is so
  close to your reach. The day when not only your
  laws will reflect the pure equality of all races,
  but your mind set, media, and perception of
  everyone will be unaffected by the color of their
  skin, gender, or any definitive qualities.
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  Yours Truly, MLK, Jr.

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Letter Summary

• Acclaim for equality
• Because Jim Crow Laws, segregated schooling,
  Father and Grandfather as preachers, wanted
  children to be judged by character
• Churchgt large supportgtcommon enemy
• of injustice
• I to We
• Future