The Role of the Expansion of Social Capital in Reducing Corruption

In today’s world and especially in developing countries, administrative corruption is a phenomenon that is known as a one of the foremost factors impeding the progress of the society. Administrative corruption is part of the issues that organizations inevitably experience throughout their lives. These issues refer to the problems whose roots mostly lie out of the organization but their impacts affect the organization. Regarding combating corruption, there are two types of basic theories revolving around these issues, those of the optimists and those of the pessimists. The first type theories consider any kind of action and initiative for ending administrative corruption as futile and the second type theories are of the belief that corruption may be lessened just like many pother existing phenomena in the society as the result of a process and through collective wisdom, institutional initiatives, gradual change in the economic and cultural structures of the society as well as changes in the social capital.In order to eliminate or alleviate this sinister phenomenon we need programs whose objective is to prevent of administrative corruption instead of fighting it through designing punitive procedures that aim to combat administrative corruption after it has occurred. It is said and believed in the medical world that, “prevention is better than the cure” and that prevention can get us to our destination cheaper and faster. Here, we would like to reiterate that reinforcing social capitals has the capacity to prevent many of the currents tinged with administrative corruption from happening. Therefore in this paper, the second method (prevention) is delved into.In every society, social capital is necessary for any activity. The most important social capital is winning the trust of others that allows us to obtain what we can’t achieve ourselves in a more efficient way and with less trouble. This shows the value of consistent cooperation in society. With the loss of social capital, public trust is lost too, therefore no cooperation results for fighting corruption