Editing Social capital (section)

==== Instrumental capital ====
Instrumental capital is behavior that is taught through one's surroundings over time. Individuals donating their resources are not seeking direct repayment from the recipient, but motivated by membership in the same social structure. Donors might not see a direct repayment, but, most commonly, they will be held by the society in greater honor.<ref name="Portes p. 8" />

Portes mentions the donation of a scholarship to a member of the same ethnic group as an example of this. The donor is not giving up resources to be directly repaid by the recipient, but, as stated above, the honor of the community. With this in mind, recipients might not know the benefactor personally, but prospers as a member of the same social group.<ref>Portes pp. 8–9</ref>

Social capital is also linked with religious communities. Religion represents an important aspect of social capital ([[religious social capital]]).<ref>Wojciech Sadłoń, ''Religijny kapitał społeczny. Saabrucken'', Bezkresy Wiedzy, 2014, p.&nbsp;297. {{ISBN|978-3639891119}}.</ref>