Although, for these purposes, social capital constitutes an unanalyzed concept, it signals to the analyst and to the reader that something of value has been produced for those actors who have this resource available and that the value depends on social organization. It then becomes a second stage in the analysis to unpack the concept, to discover what components of social organization contribute to the value produced.

DEFINE: Coleman clarifies that 'social capital' initially functions as an unanalyzed signal of value produced by social organization, demanding later decomposition into its organizational components. Builds on: "Social capital enables outcomes unattainable without it."

Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, loc. 76