Resumen

GARCIA, Ignacio. Creación y destrucción de capital social comunitario en el movimiento de trabajadores desocupados de Solano-Argentina. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.9, pp.97-127. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2010.9.161.

The objective of this article is to analyze the construction, sustainability and uses of community social capital in a social movement in Argentina that identifies horizontality and autonomy as fundamental values of social organization. By analyzing the dynamics of three types of social capital —bonding, bridging and linking— we can observe that the movement studied here is able to rapidly create community social capital and a differentiating common identity. Nevertheless, the social capital rapidly constructed is not sustained over time, because the movement’s members are unable to generate decentralized, efficient mechanisms for mutual monitoring, shared responsibility and moral penalization that will protect the common good and strengthen community identity through dense social networks.

Palabras llave : social capital; collective action; social dilemmas; social movements.