You mentioned that in small-town culture, there’s a lot of iterated interaction, but people are slow to trust outsiders. That seems to suggest that there’s high social capital within a small group, but low social capital with outsiders.
Yeah, I feel like I generally ended up steam-rolling over distinctions like this in the OP.
Social capital within a group as average trust between individuals in that group.
Social capital as trust extended to strangers, IE, default mutual trust in essentially one-shot interactions.
I was using an implicit model in which iteration within a group leads to high social capital of both types. But the small town example seems to pretty directly speak against this.
Yeah, I feel like I generally ended up steam-rolling over distinctions like this in the OP.
Social capital within a group as average trust between individuals in that group.
Social capital as trust extended to strangers, IE, default mutual trust in essentially one-shot interactions.
I was using an implicit model in which iteration within a group leads to high social capital of both types. But the small town example seems to pretty directly speak against this.