来源：《卫报》
原文刊登日期：2025年3月24日
Social capital is a key concept in the social sciences and – even though most people don’t use the term – also in common sense. Who you know matters in all sorts of ways. Such connections are associated with access to resources and opportunities of various kinds. Do governments do enough to influence this aspect of our lives and encourage net upward social mobility rather than perpetuating inherited wealth and status? A new British-American study suggests not, and makes some striking recommendations for change.