ABSTRACT

Rounding out the types of capital and their manifestations in Central Asia, I return now to the underpinnings of a concern for social capital. Social capital is appropriately defined as a manifestation of organizational capital; its assets are composed of similar elements of rules and organizations, and the same dynamic feedback between perceived and actual options. However, social capital deserves separate treatment here for the reasons that it is currently in vogue, that it is still largely undefined, and that there exist almost no available data about its history or manifestations in Central Asia.