id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3827 Social capital - Wikipedia .html text/html 15985 1712 55 Although she did not explicitly define the term social capital, her usage referred to the value of networks.[14] Political scientist Robert Salisbury advanced the term as a critical component of interest group formation in his 1969 article "An Exchange Theory of Interest Groups" in the Midwest Journal of Political Science. Additionally, in his essay "A Criticism of Putnam's Theory of Social Capital",[57] Michael Shindler expands upon Berman's argument that Weimar social clubs and similar associations in countries that did not develop democracy, were organized in such a way that they fostered a "we" instead of an "I" mentality among their members, by arguing that groups which possess cultures that stress solidarity over individuality, even ones that are "horizontally" structured and which were also common to pre-soviet eastern europe, will not engender democracy if they are politically aligned with non-democratic ideologies.[58] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3827.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3827.txt