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General Social Capital, Education‐Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools
Policy Studies Journal, 2011Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital ...
Kent L. Tedin, Gregory R. Weiher
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2018
This chapter explores the unique character of capitalist social relations in relation to the radical social transformation from feudalism to capitalism at the end of the Middle Ages. Too often, the specific character of feudal class relations and the feudal mode of production are misunderstood, especially by Marxists.
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This chapter explores the unique character of capitalist social relations in relation to the radical social transformation from feudalism to capitalism at the end of the Middle Ages. Too often, the specific character of feudal class relations and the feudal mode of production are misunderstood, especially by Marxists.
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Family Relations as Social Capital
Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2014This essay focuses on the relevance of family relationships (conceived as familial social capital) to the common good (conceived as public social capital). The article consists of three sections. The first is an attempt to discover why some prominent social capital theories do not consider family ties a specific form of social capital; in fact ...
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1987
Taken by itself, a sharp stone is simply a relic of some ancient and inexorable geological process. But appropriated as a cutting instrument, it is a tool or, in a somewhat more murderous vein, a weapon. As a stone, it is a natural object. But as a tool or weapon, it is an eminently social object whose natural form is merely the carrier of the social ...
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Taken by itself, a sharp stone is simply a relic of some ancient and inexorable geological process. But appropriated as a cutting instrument, it is a tool or, in a somewhat more murderous vein, a weapon. As a stone, it is a natural object. But as a tool or weapon, it is an eminently social object whose natural form is merely the carrier of the social ...
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THE SOCIAL CAPITAL OF POWER-DEPENDENCE RELATIONS
2022180 pages ; This dissertation aims to explore what structural features can generate power-dependence relations in social networks (i.e., A's bargaining power over B is equal to B's dependence on A in the dyadic relation) and how those relations shape individuals' access to social capital.
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Relational capital and social capital
2013In this paper, we start from relational capital, which is one of the components of intellectual capital addressing the intangible values of organizations. In popular usage, the concept seems to be closely related to social capital, with similar words (such as relationships and network) explaining it, and with claims that scholars use social capital ...
Still, Kaisa +2 more
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Social Capital in Networks of Relations
2011The idea of social capital is increasingly used in various fields of social science, but rigorous definitions of this concept are rare. According to Narayan and Pritchett (1999), social capital ‘is many things to many people’. This confusion does not contribute to the growth of knowledge in these fields.
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A Relational Resource Perspective on Social Capital
1999This chapter reviews the notion of social capital from a resource based perspective. We argue that the notion of social capital relies on a metaphorical mapping of features associated with economic notions of capital or assets into the social domain.
Araujo, L M, Easton, G
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Contemporary capitalisms and their social relation to the environment
Ecological Economics, 2020Abstract This paper analyses the socio-economic context into which environmental policies and ecological sentiments emerge through empirically studying the relation to the environment of different kinds of capitalism. The association and interaction of the relation to the environment with other key social relations, e.g. the labour-capital relations,
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SOCIAL RELATIONS AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
Bulletin of the Tver State Technical University Series «Social Sciences and Humanities», 2021Olga Nikolayevna Torgovanova +1 more
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