出版社：Servicio central de publicacion. Gobierno Vasco
摘要：The Basque Country is internationally known for the strength of its cooperative
movement. We are talking about the cultural roots of each community. From which
live; the civic traditions, the norms of reciprocity the social commitment webs,
the confidence and the shared attitudes and values that help people to reach the
conflict and the competitivity, in order to make up relations of co-operation
and mutual help under the shape of collective action. These are the necessary
culture medium in order real specialists in co-operatives can spout up. Then, we
will present the proper characteristics of cooperativism and its contributions
to the social capital, with special incident to the developed experiment in the
Basque Country. The cooperatives are based on the values of self-help,
selfresponsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. Following the
tradition of their founders, the co-operative members make the ethical values of
honesty, transparency, responsibility and social vocation theirs. These are the
principles and values that inspire real specialist in co-operatives, and the
ones in which we encounter clear references to elements of social capital:,
shared attitudes and values, participation and solidarity-inside and out of the
group as well- co-operation, mutual help, common action, engagement with the
community, and social responsibility.
