winzker.org: initiatives by Sebastian Winzker that build social capital
Trust is a capital that grows when it is shared.
The less trust a market holds, the more it costs those who have the least.
Economists count money and machines. Sociology found a third resource that never shows up on a balance sheet: the trust between people, the norms they keep and the networks they can lean on. Pierre Bourdieu showed that it is distributed as unequally as money. James Coleman showed that it makes cooperation possible where contracts alone would fail. Robert Putnam showed that whole regions rise or fall with it.
Where social capital is thin, people pay more, are cheated more easily and face companies and authorities alone. That is where my initiatives work. Each one builds a form of social capital that markets do not produce on their own.
Sebastian Winzker
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Information channels
What one person finds out can protect thousands.
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Norms and sanctions
Rules protect only where someone holds others to them.
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Trustworthiness
Trust becomes cheap once it can be checked.
Forms after James S. Coleman, Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital, 1988.
- 01 Winzker Research Theoretical research into synthetic consciousness, identity as pattern and cognitive coherence, published as working papers.
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Verbraucherschützer
.org An independent citizens’ initiative: guides on debt collection, subscription traps and online scams, live warnings from official sources, template letters and a free check of financial providers. - 03 FinBe.org Where regulators speak. Regulatory news for the FX, CFD, banking and investment industry, aggregated from official regulator records around the world.
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Günstig
Leben Well priced food and everyday goods: the best supermarket offers in your region, a shopping list with live prices, a map of social supermarkets and honest tips for saving..de
Social capital · 1916
In 1916 L. J. Hanifan, supervisor of rural schools in West Virginia, gave a name to what every village knew. Goodwill, fellowship and mutual sympathy among neighbours are a capital of their own. It grows each time people meet, and it improves the lives of all of them. He called it social capital.
The theory · 1986
Seventy years later Pierre Bourdieu turned the word into a theory. Beside money and education, the relationships a person can draw on are a third form of capital, and they are shared out as unequally as the other two. James Coleman and Robert Putnam showed that trust, norms and networks decide how well whole communities work.