# Social Capital Social capital represents the web of relationships that bind people together in what Yuval Noah Harari calls 'mass-cooperation networks'. Social capital relies on trust, reciprocity, and shared norms to facilitate cooperation. You can build things together and resolve conflicts peacefully only if you trust your neighbors, coworkers, and other members of your community. ^s3kwm3 [[Social Media Diminished Social Capital]] [[Collective Identity]] is closely linked to social capital, as people often find it hard to trust those they perceive as different from themselves. Social capital represents connections between individuals, and collective identity is one way to facilitate those connections, but the only one. We don't necessarily need strong collective identity for social capital because we can develop trust with people who are different from us, but building trust is easier with collective identity. ^cmpz4v