Integráltság, szegénység, kapcsolati tőke

Our study focuses on how much poverty and the various dimensions of social capital are related: if low living standards endanger human relations (accumulation hypothesis) or on the contrary, poverty goes together with an increasing importance of interpersonal relations (compensation hypothesis). Our data firmly support the accumulation hypothesis, poor people are less integrated into interpesonal networks than those better-off. Poverty mostly coincides with decreased numbers of instrumental ties and this negative corelation is less observabée regarding friends and intimate relations. Subjective social exclusion characterises those identified as socially excluded by poverty indices significatly more. Among the at risk of poverty and social exclusion indicators, material deprivation correlates most strongly with variables describing relationships, while the correlation of income poverty and social network indices are weak.