The Formation of Social Capital: from Micro to Macro Level

The paper is an attempt to clarify the conditions, facilitating the formation of social capital. These conditions constitute the «infrastructure», favoring the creation of a peculiar sociocultural space, in which the accumulation of social capital takes place. Among them are collective moral norms, generalized trust, attitude of the reciprocal nature of the interaction,
spontaneous sociability, developed civil society institutions, informal levers of market regulation, «flexibility» of the social structure and the ability of society to generate social capital at different levels.

Keywords: social capital, social norms, generalized trust, reciprocity, «flexibility» of social structure.