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| | Amitai Etzioni Notes: November 2003 Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Social capital networks can be supplied by formal organisations-political parties, gentlemen's clubs, a birdwatching society, a local church, an addicts' support group or a school governing body-or informal: a circle of friends, a group of friendly neighbours, a casual reading group, or babysitting circle. |
 | | Social capital manifests itself in small ways-nodding to a stranger in a lift, raising a hand to a driver who stops at a zebra crossing-and large: risking one's life to save a drowning stranger or donating a life's savings to a good cause. |
 | | Whether social capital is measured by formal membership of associations, informal sociability, or perceptions of trust, the pattern of decline from the middle of the 20th century to the end is much the same. |
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