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Social Capital in K orea: Relational Capital, Trust, and Transparency
Author(s) -
Yee Jaeyeol
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of japanese sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.133
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1475-6781
pISSN - 0918-7545
DOI - 10.1111/ijjs.12035
Subject(s) - social reproduction , social capital , social transformation , individual capital , sociology , social mobility , financial capital , relational capital , economic capital , economic system , economics , social change , social science , economic growth , human capital
This article starts by distinguishing two different types of social capital, that is, societal moral resource capital and relational capital. Social capital as a societal moral resource is best characterized in P utnam's works. Social capital as the relational mobilization of information and control is best conceptualized by C oleman. By contrasting these two aspects of social capital, and by contextualizing the peculiarity of social relations in E ast A sian countries, this article explores the characteristics of social capital in K orea. For that purpose, I focus on the working of relational capital, or inmaek , in the creation and reproduction of social inequality. Moreover, I calculate the macro‐level transformation of K orean society in terms of the role of societal moral resources.