Preconditions of Social Capital – The Czech Context

Abstract

Before analyzing the quality of measures regarding access to and accessed social capital (see Chapters 10 to 12), the purpose of this chapter is to circumscribe the preconditions of access to social capital. As concluded in part 1 of the present monograph, access to social capital via networks is determined by cultural societal aspects, by collective assets like historical, technological and economic background, as well as by individual characteristics like sex, age and education. The latter varies according to socio-demographics of the respondent; the former two are valid for all respondents in a researched population.