摘要：The empirical results indicate that the informal relationships, which are the core of the soft social infrastructure, play a significant role for the survival of the poor communities. Under the conditions of rising globalization, many communities are formed in urban areas where the hard conditions of living are combined with various cultures. The paper tries to shed light on the mechanism of the formation social capital in multicultural settings and to outline the alternatives of soft social infrastructure in this setting. It is indicated that the efficiency of soft social infrastructure depends strongly on the quality of social capital generated by the individuals of community. This quality is defined by a series of complex reasons and transformed into social capital depending on the value system of individuals. Thus, the multicultural interactions are reduced to interactions of value systems. To facilitate analysis, the problem is restricted to the influence of these interactions on the survival of the community. As soft social infrastructure is one of the main feedbacks supporting survival, the harmonization of cultural interactions is of paramount importance for successful performance. Due to its implicit character this process is extremely difficult to study and manage.
