Stephen Baron / John Field / Tom Schuller (eds.)

Social Capital

Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Baron, Stephen; Schuller, Tom; Field, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The idea of 'social capital' is increasingly influencing international, national, and local policy making and work within the social sciences. This book provides an overview of 'social capital' together with critical discussion of its application in a wide variety of fields.However, its rapid rise to prominence has not been matched by proper scrutiny of the idea and its consequences. This book provides the first full critical analysis of social capital, written by authors from a wide range of disciplinary and policy backgrounds. The book asks searching questions. Is social capital really new? Does it offer significant analytic purchase? Can it be an operational, as opposed to rhetorical, concept? Can policies based on social capital deal with conflict and social exclusion? These issues are explored through studies of education, health, poltical science, urban regeneration, economic development and other areas and disciplines. The authors - who include academics, professionals and policy specialists - are all distinguished and prominent contributors in their own fields.

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"Social capital," a new idea gaining worldwide recognition, is explored in this book through studies of education, health, political science, urban regeneration, and economic development. Providing a unique overview of the topic, together with critical discussion of its application in a wide variety of fields, the volume offers the first full critical analysis of social capital, written by academics, professionals and policy specialists who are all distinguished and prominent contributors in their own fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297130
• ISBN-10: 0198297130
• Artikelnr.: 21838072

Autorenporträt

Stephen Baron, University of Glasgow, Scotland John Field, University of Warwick, England Tom Schuller, Birkbeck College, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Tom Schuller, Stephen Baron and John Field: Social capital: a
review and critique
* 2: Lindsay Paterson: Civil society and democratic renewal
* 3: Simon Szreter: Social capital, the economy and education in
historical perspective
* 4: Ben Fine and Francis Green: Economic, social capital and the
colonization of the social sciences
* 5.: Ralph Fevre: Socialising social capital: identity, the transition
to work and economic development.
* 6: Peter Maskell: Social capital, innovation and competitiveness
* 7.: Peter Loizos: Refugees and social capital theory: social capital
and social integration
* 8: Jon Lauglo: Social capital trumping class and cultural capital?
Engagement with school among immigrant youth
* 9: Pamela Munn: Social capital, schools and exclusions
* 10: Catherine Campbell: Social capital and health: contextualizing
health promotion within local community networks
* 11: Alex MacGillivray and Perry Walker: Local social capital: making
it work on the ground
* 12: William Maloney, Graham Smith and Gerry Stoker: Social capital
and associational life
* 13: Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder: Human capital, social capital and
collective intelligence
* 14: John Field, Tom Schuller and Stephen Baron: Social capital and
human capital revisited