social capital

The analysis of the contents and forms of the social capital is applied to the economic processes peculiar to postindustrial technological way. The social capital influences economic life of a society as the independent phenomenon and through transformation into other forms: cultural, human, physical capitals. It becomes means of growth of economy of the advanced countries, moves in structure of radical sources of development.

Introduction. Category of «social capital» widely presents in foreign scientific journals. Russian science also explores this area of know- ledge. Intangibility and the existence in the form of social relations is one of the basic properties of social capital. The paper suggests several approaches to measuring the level of social capital based on the information in domestic and foreign sources. Empirical analysis.