{
  "id": "social-capital.resource",
  "term": "social capital",
  "sense": "resource",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "social",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "a collective resource of trust and obligation that remains in a window of silence, providing control without ever being said",
  "folk_gloss": "the network of trust and obligations people can draw on",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective.group",
      "resource.material",
      "trust.reliance",
      "responsibility.moral",
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "open-secret.silence",
      "control.ability",
      "never.temporal",
      "said.speech",
      "provide.supply",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "trust and obligation create a resource inside the window of silence, and that resource provides control that is never said",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unspoken pool of relational leverage"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "social capital"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — what the group will not say"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social-capital.resource"
}