Psychobiological Aspects of Social and Human Capital Deficits

Abstract

Human and social capital plays a significant role in the development of modern civil societies. When the structure and quality of the society deteriorates, one can observe concurrent social and human capital deficiency. In this work the author made an attempt to evaluate the causes, conditioning and the results of these penomena with emphasis placed on the psychological aspects of this deficiency within both types of capital. Such analyses are frequently not considered in sociological-economical studies. Therefore the diagnosis of the relationships between the socio-economic situation, the functioning of the society and the resources of human and social capital may be incomplete. In this work the author has examined the existence of two-sided relationships like feedback between the quality and the structure of the society and the resources of social and human capital. The deterioration of the functioning of society structures may be the cause as well as the result of deficiency within these capitals. The quality of human and social capital may be affected by psychobiological fac-tors connected with the general state of the society including personality features and structure in the individual and social aspect. doi:10.5200/sm-hs.2012.028