Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Classics and Theoretical Directions, 1,5, University of Tubingen (Institut für Soziologie), James S. Coleman, English, In this paper, Coleman’s concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated. Due to a lack of a critical observation concerning negative effects caused by social capital an approach is being made to show that also social capital is not only a source of good.