As consequence, the strongest organizations also have no incentives to collaborate because they cannot suggest anything desirable to each other. Moreover they consider each other as rivals for the symbolic power that can be defined by an amount of those that beg to them to be their friends. Combining these results with ideas of Baldassarri and Diani (2007), we assume that Kazakhstani civil society most likely consists of quasi-random, contingent patterns of relations and yet has not reached more sustainable forms of solidarity.