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Article: Social capital and the rural church.(Report)
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- Rural Society
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- December 1, 2007
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Introduction
A study of the social capital literature reveals that there is little unanimity on just how social capital should be defined. This is understandable, for although the concept may have been around for some time the popular usage of the term is a relatively recent phenomenon (Woolcock 2000, p. xviii). Hughes, Bellamy and Black (1999, p. 2) refer to it as an 'ubiquitous neologism', that is, a fairly new term found almost everywhere. Ubiquitous it may be, but there is a wide diversity of opinion as to just what social capital actually is, prompting the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to state that 'social capital is not, however, a precise term' ...