Editing Symbolic capital (section)

==Distinction from social capital==
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[[Pierre Bourdieu]] explains '''social capital''' as the degree to which actors are capable of subsisting together in [[social structure]]s that are often [[Homogeneity and heterogeneity|heterogeneous]] in nature. Where ''symbolic capital'' is earned on an individual basis and may fluctuate widely between members in a community, ''social capital'' is the overarching sense of trust and cooperation that actors in an environment possess in between one another. An actor may possess a great degree of symbolic capital while isolating themselves from the community, resulting in a low level of social capital, or vice versa.

The term ''social capital'' was first defined by [[Jane Jacobs]] in order to explain the inherent value formed in neighborhood relationships which allowed members to cooperate and establish a communal sense of trust. The concept itself, however, was originally articulated by [[L. J. Hanifan]] in a 1916 journal article, "The Rural School Community Center", in the ''[[Annals Of The American Academy Of Political And Social Science|Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]]''. He included a chapter on the subject in his 1920 book, ''The Community Center''. The term was later used by Jacobs in her influential writing on urban planning, ''[[The Death and Life of Great American Cities]]''.