# social capital (resource)

*Ordinarily means:* the network of trust and obligations people can draw on

a collective resource of trust and obligation that remains in a window of silence, providing control without ever being said

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective.group), [resource](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-resource.material), [trust](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance), [responsibility](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-responsibility.moral), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [open secret](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-open-secret.silence), [control](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-control.ability), [never](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-never.temporal), [said](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-said.speech), [provide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-provide.supply), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue)

**Through:** 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

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social-capital.resource*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-social-capital.resource.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*