they depart from the opposition between the universality of rights and the rationality of targeting and call into question the merits of social protection regimes based on individual capitalization lastly these new approaches also seek to combine the core elements of the fight against poverty with those of the fight against inequality and efforts to promote social cohesion the former can be understood as an intangible resource which enables individuals and groups to obtain certain benefits on the basis of social relations based on trust reciprocity and cooperation arriagada the theory suggests that as the social capital of protection networks increases disparities in benefits will decrease