Abstract
The study of social capital is aimed at improving the basic conditions of socialization, which determine the main vectors in forming of a competitive nation, such as education, health, culture and social security. Trust between people plays a key role in the functioning of horizontal and vertical social relations. The purpose of this paper is the study of trust as a sociological phenomenon and an indicator of measuring the quality of social ties in Kazakhstani society. Many scholars considered trust as social capital and the basis for building social relations. Simply put, social capital is the number of people who can willingly help you with solving various problems. And the vast majority of people have problems with low level of trust in each other; distrust of social and state institutions is widely developed in Kazakhstani society. Why is there a very weak level of trust in almost everything in our society? If in the studies of foreign scientists the conceptual foundations of social capital, the strategy for the interaction of social groups, various models of civil society are clearly indicated, in Kazakhstani science there is gradually an interest in studying this phenomenon, its conceptual designation in sociological knowledge, as well as the definition of the sociocultural model of civil society.