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Social Capital (Paperback)
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Social Capital (Paperback)
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Social capital is a principal concept across the social sciences
and has readily entered into mainstream discourse. In short, it is
popular. However, this popularity has taken its toll. Social
capital suffers from a lack of consensus because of the varied ways
it is measured, defined, and deployed by different researchers. It
has been put to work in ways that stretch and confuse its
conceptual value, blurring the lines between networks, trust, civic
engagement, and any type of collaborative action. This clear and
concise volume presents the diverse theoretical approaches of
scholars from Marx, Coleman, and Bourdieu to Putnam, Fukuyama, and
Lin, carefully analyzing their commonalities and differences.
Joonmo Son categorizes this wealth of work according to whether its
focus is on the necessary preconditions for social capital, its
structural basis, or its production. He distinguishes between
individual and collective social capital (from shared resources of
a personal network to pooled assets of a whole society), and
interrogates the practical impact social capital has had in various
policy areas (from health to economic development). Social Capital
will be of immense value to readers across the social sciences and
practitioners in relevant fields seeking to understand this
mercurial concept.
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