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strong ties


  Close personal friends; typically the people one goes to in times of great crisis (if one has lost a job, or has marital problems, or has a severe health problem) and needs personal support.
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social trust


(also called generalized trust) A well-tested question that asks how much strangers can be tested, typically of the form: 'which comes closer to your views, people can generally be trusted or you can’t be too careful in dealing with others?'
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astroturf social capital/astroturf grassroots efforts


  Apparently real grassroots efforts that are in reality largely funded by an organization (often a corporation). Astroturf associations or astroturf grassroots efforts give the appearance that a corporate viewpoint is widely held by a large number of independent individuals.
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asymmetrical relationships


  See directed social networks.
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bonding social capital


  Social ties that link people together with others who are primarily like them along some key dimension. For example, a group that meets of 50-year old African American men. [In reality some groups are bonding in some ways and bridging in others: for example, the Knights of Columbus is bonding with respect to religion, but bridging across social c [..]
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bridging social capital


  Social ties that link people together with others across a cleavage that typically divides society (like race, or class, or religion).
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centrality


(from social networks literature) A measure of how important a node (actor) is to connecting members of a social network, i.e., the degree to which a node (or actor) is a 'sociometric star' or 'isolate'. The formulas for this vary depending on whether one is talking about directed (asymmetric) social networks or undirected (symm [..]
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check-writing organization


  As distinct from a truly active membership organization (where members regularly meet, and elect representatives), a check-writing organization is one where most members' membership consists of writing a check to that organization for annual dues. 'Check-writing organizations' are often headquartered in Washington, DC, and staffed [..]
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closure


(from social networks literature) Can be seen as the opposite of structural holes. The degree of likelihood that everyone in a network knows everyone else in the network, or the likelihood that if A knows B and B knows C that A knows C. Can also see this as the degree of connectedness of a social network.
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