Social Capital 2nd Edition (Key Ideas)

✍ Scribed by John Field

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 202
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The term 'social capital' is a way of conceptualizing the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable currency in the social sciences through the very different work of Bourdieu in France, and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the States, and has been taken up within politics and sociology as a means of explaining the decline of social cohesion and community values in many Western societies. This concise introduction, the only one currently available, explains the theoretical underpinning of the subject, the empirical work that has been done to explore its operation, and the effect that it has had on policy-making particularly within such international governmental bodies as the World Bank and the European Commission. With genuine cross-disciplinary appeal, this exceptional book will be of great interest to students of sociology, politics and social policy.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?......Page 10
1 FROM METAPHOR TO CONCEPT......Page 22
2 NETWORKS IN USE......Page 57
3 A WALK ON THE DARK SIDE......Page 88
4 FUTURE TENSE OR PRESENT PERFECT?: SOCIAL CAPITAL IN A CHANGING WORLD......Page 110
5 POLICY AND POLITICS: SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE REAL WORLD......Page 141
CONCLUSION......Page 166
RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET......Page 177
REFERENCES......Page 178
INDEX......Page 198

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