Social capital put to the test

Title: Social capital put to the test
Creator: Adkins, Lisa
Relation: Sociology compass Vol. 2, Issue 4, p. 1209-1227
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00123.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: This article offers a critical review and mapping of theoretical elaborations of the social capital concept and of some of the key empirical projects which in their various ways have attempted to capture and measure social capital. In so doing, it maps the rise and rise of social capital within the social sciences and beyond. It then considers a range of hypotheses which have attempted to explain the ever increasing prominence and reach of the concept. To understand this reach, the article suggests that we must look beyond the theoretical, methodological and empirical technicalities of the social capital debates and cast our eyes to a fundamental rewriting and reworking of the social field.
Subject: social capital; sociology; critical review
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058007
Identifier: uon:16309
Identifier: ISSN:1751-9020
Language: eng
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