chapter 14

Cards (6)

What is social capital?
The value of the social networks a person has and the inclination of the people within these networks to do things for each other
What is social capability?
Social and cultural qualities that allow a country to take advantage of economic opportunities
What are the elements of social capability?
Experience the population has with management and organization of large scale enterprises
Belief in a cause and effect system analysis instead of superstition
The ability to take advantage of market economics
A social view of life as important
What is observer Bias
An assessment of a variable is clouded by the observers knowledge of that variable related to other things
What are factors that determine culture?
Religion
Climate and natural resources
Cultural Homogeneity and social capital
Population density and social capability
What is the index of ethic fractionalization?
The probability that 2 randomly selected people would belong to different ethnic groups