| Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church-based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs. |
| Bonding social capital within specific communities is seen as injurious to development as a whole, and therefore needs to be discouraged. |
| Justice, integrity and trust in fundamental institutions are essential social assets and social capital is as important as economic prosperity. |
| The ability to live and work together is destroyed, social capital is depleted, and quality of life is diminished. |
| Work-based networks, diffuse friendships and shared or mutually acknowledged social values are also forms of social capital. |
| Bourdieu defines social capital as resources that are gained from institutionalized relationships. |
