Civic Engagement & Community Relationships

Question 1

Connections among individuals. Social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them

Answer 1

Social capital

Question 2

“I’ll do this for you without expecting anything specific back from you, in the confident expectation that someone else will do something for me down the road.”

Answer 2

Generalized reciprocity

Question 3

“I’ll do this for you if you do that for me.”

Answer 3

Specific reciprocity

Question 4

Inclusive, outward-looking and encompasses people across diverse social cleavages, better for linkage to external assets and for information diffusion

Answer 4

Bridging social captial

Question 5

Exclusive, inward-looking and tends to reinforce exclusive identities and homogenous groups, good for understanding specific reciprocity and mobilizing solidarity

Answer 5

Bonding social capital

Question 6

The varied amounts of social capital correlates with the level of civic engagement (ex; more social capital=more civic engagement)

Answer 6

Social capital is the “currency” of civic engagement

Question 7

Private action that impacts the public

Answer 7

Externalities