Question

Suppose you recently attended a dinner party. the invitation was extended to you by a close friend who had also been invited and who was trying to help you land a job in your chosen field of criminal justice. as it turned out, your friend was unable to attend and you knew nobody there, even though the guests were all employed in police departments in the area and therefore would might have aided your job search. during the dinner, you had no meaningful conversations with anyone, so you conclude that your social capital has

Answer 1

The answer to the question is that your social capital hasn’t expanded, or that you lost your chance to expand your social capital.

Social capital is defined as resources that an individual gain by interacting with other people, which can come in the form of tangible and non-tangible resources, such as monetary aid, information, and ideas. By not interacting with the police forces that were invited in the party, the individual in the question lost his chance to gain social capital to help him find a job in the criminal justice field.