Document Type
Presentation
Date
2-15-2007
Keywords
Social capital
Language
English
Disciplines
Education
Description/Abstract
I want to speak today about social capital—the bonds of trust that we form between neighbors, colleagues, acquaintances, new and old—and how essential it is to the health and prosperity of any community. More specifically, I want to talk about our communal responsibility not only to build social capital with those easily within our familiar frame of social reference, but also to bridge to others, less obviously or directly a part of our “social family.” And, I want to take note of how hard this is to do, and analyze some of the commonplace obstacles, with the hope that reflection on them will help us all overcome these social hurdles.
Recommended Citation
Cantor, Nancy, "Building social capital with bonds and bridges" (2007). Chancellor's Collection. 16.
https://surface.syr.edu/chancellor/16
Source
data created locally
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Additional Information
Speech delivered at the Foundation for the Carolinas Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 15, 2007.