The original article, which was published in November 2019, was updated by Dr. Rick Mask in collaboration with Gina Neugebauer. Social capital is not a new term. In fact, it has been examined by many ...

“No man is an island, entire of itself,” the poet John Donne famously wrote. “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” Sociologists use the term “social capital” to describe our ...