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Concepts of Capital - The Commodification of Social Life (Paperback)
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Concepts of Capital - The Commodification of Social Life (Paperback)
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Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline'specifically the
concept of "capital" has led to an abundance of new terms in the
social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural
capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an
ever-growing list. In this interdisciplinary transaction, the
concept is borrowed and the original meaning extended until the new
concepts often have nothing left in common with their initial
referents. Here Jacek Tittenbrun offers a critical analysis of
human, social, and cultural capital on the basis of their uses and
misuses across a wide range of social sciences, simultaneously
revealing the source of conceptual diffusion in the real world. He
presents a two-pronged analysis of an intellectual fashion popular
in the social sciences and offers a critical analysis of a range of
concepts constructed around the common core of "capital." The
analysis is innovative, as it is underpinned by a theoretical
framework rooted in economic sociology and the concept of ownership
in particular. The approach is one of the sociology of knowledge
coupled with a substantive critique-application of the given
concepts. The volume reveals a range of processes in the real world
that account for the conceptual diffusion. The general reader will
be drawn to the discussion in the second half of the book, a study
of a variety of relatable real life situations that illuminate
privatization and commodification in our lives.
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