These are the true networks that i exist in, i live in a 5 sharing unit with my Resmates, who are also my friends , i clean around the house in exchange of taking and using their cleaning essentials. In cleaning around the unit in exchange of using their cleaning essentials this type of exchange is cultural exchange i use my skills in cleaning around the unit and these are my Resmates, somehow are my friends and the exchange of reciprocity is balanced.
Angel and Zinhle sometimes cook, taking turns in exchange of me buying the groceries and the ingredients needed for the meal, including dishing out and washing dishes. Angel and Zinhle are using cultural capital because they are using their skills according to what they know and me offering groceries its economic capital and the exchange of reciprocity it is balanced. a month later changes ocurred ,Angel and Zinhle started to cook for themselves and cooked for myself also. Bought my own groceries and cooked , prepared a meal for myself.
When I'm home i would wash my brother's car 2x in a week and in exchange of money and he would give me end of the week. Washing my brother's car that is cultural capital and in exchange of reciprocity it is generalized with kinship structural part of the family. Going back to the residential i had lost my student card and could not gain access to the campus without my student card and i asked the security guard to let me in because i lost my student card and did not have my phone with me therefore i could not even show my POR to him and he let me in. This is social capital because i know the security and he was able to let me in by the entrance gate and helped me to make a new one and in exchange of reciprocity it is generalized in non-kinship. Two weeks back i borrowed a certain amount of cash from my friend so i can do my hair and she offered to do my hair without charging me any amount of money. That is cultural exchange with skills that she had, she did my, also borrowed some cash from my resmate and she lent me and did what i needed to do with the money after a few days i returned back the money from the person i borrowed it from.
On Monday after class at the campus me and my classmates we sat together and ate lunch, one of my classmate named Bridget bought us lunch, that includes rolls, fries and cooldrink and some snacks on the side and we decided we gonna take turns and that is referred as economic capital, her buying us food is economic capital, having access to financial resources and it is associated with giving, returning and receiving. On Friday evening my friend Sebabatso called me and said we going out for dinner date. When we got to the mall we ordered food and she paid for the bill. The next day i took her out on an ice-cream date and that is economic capital and the exchange of reciprocity is generalized with kinship structural with giving and returning countless times.