Kapitał społeczny śląskich studentów. Zaufanie – Sieci relacji – Normy wzajemności
The social capital of Silesian students. Trust – Relational networks – Reciprocal norms

Summary/Abstract: The article presents in-depth information about the issue of the social capital of Silesian students. The text begins with the short description of the addressed problem. In the first part classical concepts of this issue – Pierre Bourdieu’s, Robert D. Putnam’s, James Coleman’s and Francis Fukuyama’s – have been recounted. The reader gets to know about three fundamental definitional aspects of the social capital: trust, relational networks and reciprocal norms. In the next part all essential information about the social capital of Silesian students have been presented, based on the results from the author’s master’s thesis research. It has been highlighted that the social capital of academic youth is at a very basic level.

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