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Article: Social Capital
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Social Capital
PIERRE BOURDIEU, JAMES S. COLEMAN, AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
ROBERT D. PUTNAM, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND CRITIQUE
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In a broad and nonessentialist sense, social capital means that the relations humans enter into are a potential source of utility and benefit for them. However, the concept of social capital is perceived in divergent ways with a plurality of approaches and empirical operationalizations. Unfortunately, there is little discussion among dissenting viewpoints.
After an earlier emergence in the work of Lydia Hanifan (1916) or Jane Jacobs (1961), the term
social capital
resurfaced in the 1970s in the work of economist Glenn Loury. For Loury, the social context in ...