Subjects and boundaries: contesting social capital--based policies.

Journal of Economic Issues;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Economist The World Bank is prime among...concept of social capital. Social capital...way in which social capital is defined and analyzed by the World Bank and to what...in defining social capital the WB has...its work on social ...

A (social) capital idea: making development work.(World In Review)

Harvard International Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Somewhere, right now, social capital is improving someone...are relying on social capital to serve as an...extend to them. Social capital is transforming...The concept of social capital, introduced by...originally defined social capital as the norms...higher ...

Beyond social capital in poverty research.

Journal of Economic Issues;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......definitions of social capital around. Most definitions...For example, the World Bank defines social...ways in which social capital is integrated...1995a and 1995b; World Bank Social Capital...was done by the World Bank (Narayan ...

Gender and the Limits of Social Capital*

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......basic idea behind social capital appears uncomplicated...very complicated. Social capital research has largely...leaves much of the social capital literature sex...can access. If social capital is chosen as a...social economy and social capital, to ...

Social capital, development, and indigenous politics in Ecuadorian...

The Geographical Review;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......activities and explore the ways in which social capital has facilitated the federation...against the state. The concept of social capital, viewed within a context of symbolic...practices must be understood. (1) SOCIAL CAPITAL AND SYMBOLIC MEANING In the decade...1993), adoption of ...

Social capital and community building through an electronic network.

Australian Journal of Social Issues;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......connectedness and models of social capital. Technology is often...on the concept of social capital as a way of thinking...occupy cyberspace. Social Capital In her 1995 Boyer...Cox stated that 'social capital should be the pre-emine...between stores of social ...

The intersection of social capital and power: an application to rural...

Rural Society;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Introduction The political economy of social capital has rarely been addressed. In this...the ways in which various forms of social capital intersect with a multiplicity of power...spatial location of these settlements. Social capital is a concept that is much critiqued...

Social capital and the rural church.(Report)

Rural Society;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......diversity of opinion as to just what social capital actually is, prompting the Australian...Statistics (ABS) to state that 'social capital is not, however, a precise term...case and although definitions of social capital abound, it is appropriate that...research project (1), being ...

The left needs to get social capital right, read IPA Review

Review - Institute of Public Affairs;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...'Social capital' is the most important social theory idea over the past...federal Labor Party has spent a lot of time talking about social capital. Labor believes that social capital is created by government, not created by the invisible...

Public libraries as developers of social capital.

Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......school reformer, who referred to social capital as those tangible substances [that...there will be an accumulation of social capital, which may immediately satisfy...2) Hanifan's early account of social capital 'anticipated virtually all the...5) In the 1990s the concept of ...

Achieving Success Through Social Capital. (Book Review).(Book Review)

The Journal of Business Communication;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Jossey-Bass Inc., 2000. 256 pages. Social capital is a hot topic in organizations today...workshops to evaluate and repair their social capital. Corporations have begun to explore...Baker's book, Achieving Success Through Social Capital. Baker asserts a well-known but often...

'People are accepted as long as they don't misbehave': exploring the...

Rural Society;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......investigates the relationship between social capital and crime in rural Australia...outlines the conceptualisation of social capital which has informed this research...suggests two key links between social capital and crime which has led researchers...

Social Capital and Constraints on Legal Careers

Law & Society Review;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......article focuses on the role of social capital in lawyers' careers by examining...legal profession has emphasized social capital as an inherently positive resource...this article conceptualizes social capital as multivalent, with the potential...

Social Capital and Homicide [*].

Social Forces;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Despite recent theoretical attention to social capital and its impact on a range of public...relationship between crime rates and levels of social capital across populations. That research gap...macro-level empirical indicators of social capital. In this article, we measure ...

social capital

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      591 words ......rates. The relationship between social capital and human capital is unclear. Human...largely to the individual), while social capital is a public or collective good...levels of human capital generate social capital, and social capital promotes acquisition of human ...