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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Serie: Key Concepts
- Sprache: Englisch
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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Contents
Series title
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgment
1 What is Social Capital?
Various social capitals
Marxist macroeconomic view of social capital
Micro foundation of social capital
Coleman: social capital as macro structure and micro actions
Bourdieu: social capital of the ruling class
Putnam: social capital as both public and private good
Fukuyama: social capital as culture of trust
Lin: social capital as embedded resources in social networks
Collective and individual social capital
Conclusion and what follows next
2 Measuring Social Capital
Measures of individual social capital
Name generator
Position generator
Resource generator
Measures of collective social capital
Trust
Membership in voluntary associations
Conclusion
3 Social Capital, Civil Society, and Economic Development
Social capital and civil society
Theoretical reasoning: networks, trust, civil society
Empirical examination: voluntary organizations
Empirical examination: trust
Empirical examination: personal networks
Dissociation between social capital and civil society?
Social capital and economic development
Social capital promotes economy
Social capital is unrelated to economy
Conclusion
4 Social Capital and Status Attainment
Accessed individual social capital
Activated individual social capital
Collective social capital
Conclusion
5 Social Capital and Health
Collective social capital and health
Individual social capital and health
Conclusion
6 Online Social Capital
General internet use and social capital
Online social media and individual social capital
Online social media and collective social capital
Conclusion
7 Social Capital: Delimitation and Empowerment
Delimitation: social capital and trust
What the literature says about social capital and trust
Alternative conceptualizations of social capital
Social capital: preconditions, structural basis, and production
Concluding remark
References
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Contents
1 What is Social Capital?
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Key Concepts Series
Barbara Adam,
Time
Alan Aldridge,
Consumption
Alan Aldridge,
The Market
Jakob Arnoldi,
Risk
Will Atkinson,
Class
Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer,
Disability
Darin Barney,
The Network Society
Mildred Blaxter,
Health 2
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Harriet Bradley,
Gender 2
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Harry Brighouse,
Justice
Mónica Brito Vieira and David Runciman,
Representation
Steve Bruce,
Fundamentalism 2
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Mental Illness
Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings,
Neoliberalism
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The People
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Alejandro Colás,
Empire
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Anthony Elliott,
Concepts of the Self 4
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Steve Fenton,
Ethnicity 2
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Katrin Flikschuh,
Freedom
Michael Freeman,
Human Rights 3
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edition
Russell Hardin,
Trust
Geoffrey Ingham,
Capitalism
Fred Inglis,
Culture
Robert H. Jackson,
Sovereignty
Jennifer Jackson Preece,
Minority Rights
Gill Jones,
Youth
Paul Kelly,
Liberalism
Anne Mette Kjær,
Governance
Ruth Lister,
Poverty
Jon Mandle,
Global Justice
Cillian McBride,
Recognition
Anthony Payne and Nicola Phillips,
Development
Judith Phillips,
Care
Chris Phillipson,
Ageing
Robert Reiner,
Crime
Michael Saward,
Democracy
William E. Scheuerman,
Civil Disobedience
John Scott,
Power
Timothy J. Sinclair,
Global Governance
Anthony D. Smith,
Nationalism 2
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Joonmo Son,
Social Capital
Deborah Stevenson,
The City
Leslie Paul Thiele,
Sustainability 2
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Steven Peter Vallas,
Work
Stuart White,
Equality
Michael Wyness,
Childhood
Social Capital
Joonmo Son
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Dedication
Mi-Kyeong, Hahae, and Hajin,the structural basis of social capital to which I belong
Preface
Social capital is without doubt a principal concept in social sciences. It is rare that a concept is adopted by multiple disciplines, forms its independent area of studies within them, impacts public policies, and receives great media exposure. Social capital has been the exception. In short, it is popular. However, this popularity has taken its toll. Social capital suffers from a lack of consensus in terms of its meaning and measurement because various researchers and disciplines developed their own ways of utilizing the concept. Thus I cannot pretend that there is a common definition.
The practical way in which I choose to introduce social capital in this book is (1) by showing diverse theoretical approaches proposed by key scholars analyzing their commonalities and differences, and (2) by discussing what kind of impact social capital has made in various research areas. In doing so, I apply an analytical typology comparing individual and collective social capitals to main theoretical approaches and, using the same typology, organize the contributions that social capital has made to various research areas. Briefly, individual social capital refers to shared resources among the members of a personal network, while collective social capital indicates common consciousness, relational features, and pooled assets of a collectivity such as a neighborhood, a voluntary association, or a whole society. However, I use this typology not because it is ideal but because it is a practical means to produce a systematic review of the unorganized social capital literature.
To make a significant improvement, I suggest that the concept of social capital should be delimited. The three-step approach from preconditions to structural basis to production of social capital aims to delimit the concept separating cultural-psychological-institutional-legal factors from it. According to this approach, for instance, collective social capital should be composed of the group-level and individual assets attached to organizational networks, taking collective consciousness (e.g., trust) and relational features (e.g., norms of reciprocity) back to be part of the preconditions of the structural basis of social relations, not social capital per se.
I can suggest two strategic ways of reading this book. Readers interested in the theories and measurements of social capital may first read chapters 1, 2, and 7. Those who want to know how social capital is applied to certain areas of their interest can go to chapters 3 to 6.
I would like to thank Nan Lin, John Wilson, and Edward A. Tiryakian for their intellectual influences on me that are reflected in this book. Vineeta Sinha, my department head, allowed me to take a sabbatical semester to complete this book. Gabriel Noparat, my research assistant, has done a great job in helping me review numerous studies of social capital in various fields. Cyndy Brown has copy-edited the manuscript meticulously. I am grateful to Jonathan Skerrett, Karina Jákupsdóttir, Evie Deavall, and the copy-editors at Polity, who have offered valuable advice as well as assistance with the publication of this book.
Acknowledgment
This work was supported by the NUS Global Asia Institute-JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Center grant [CARC-2016-001].
