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Froswa' Booker-Drew • TEDxSMU

Proximity+Presence: Social Capital and Polarization

Social capital is about building relationships, associations and networks. So often, our focus is transactional and not intentional to build relationships that could be transformative and our proximity has everything to do with it.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSMU, an independent event.

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Social capital is about building relationships, associations and networks. So often, our focus is transactional and not intentional to build relationships that could be transformative and our proximity has everything to do with it.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSMU, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

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