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On the Empirics of Social Capital [PDF]

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Development in Practice, 2007
In parallel with, and as a complement to, globalisation, 'social capital' has enjoyed a meteoric rise across the social sciences over the last two decades. Not surprisingly, it has been particularly prominent across development studies, not least through heavy promotion by the World Bank.
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Social Media Social Capital, Offline Social Capital, and Citizenship: Exploring Asymmetrical Social Capital Effects

Political Communication, 2016
In pursuit of a healthier and participatory democracy, scholars have long established the positive effects of social capital, values derived from resources embedded in social ties with others which characterize the structure of opportunity and action in communities.
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Social capital: Neither social, nor capital

Social Science Information, 2014
Its enormous popularity across the social sciences notwithstanding, the concept of social capital is seriously flawed. More specifically, it is a misnomer; it does not capture the entire extent of the social and has nothing to do with capital in the proper sense of the word.
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Linking social capital: a forgotten component of social capital [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2016
I read with interest the study from Dr Takashi Oshio, where he attempted to address how the association between individual-level social capital and health is confounded by an individual's unobserved time-invariant attributes.1 By reading the methods described by the author, one can find that he operationalised social capital only as two components ...
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Capitalism and Socialism

2017
This chapter identifies capitalism as a system for human relating which came to predominance in several Christian societies during the nineteenth century. Socialism emerged in the same regions—part Romantic desire to restore social relationships weakened by capitalism, part product of secular Enlightenment hopes to reorganize human society by the moral
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Social Capital Knowledge

2006
Organizations have capabilities for creating and sharing knowledge (intellectual capital) that give them their distinctive advantage over other institutional arrangements, such as markets (Ghoshal & Nahapiet, 1998). But, what is the basis of a firm’s knowledge development capabilities?
Daniel L. Davenport, Clyde W. Hosapple
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trust and social capital

For Good Measure Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP, 283-320. Paris: OECD, 2018
This chapter discusses the role of trust for social progress and people’s well-being. It reviews the different definitions and types of trust, including rational trust, moral trust and social preferences, as well as the state of existing statistics on trust.
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A Critique of Social Capital

International Journal of Health Services, 2002
This article critiques the concepts of communitarianism and social capital as used in the United States and in Europe. For the United States, the author focuses on Robert Putnam's understanding of both concepts, showing that the apolitical analysis of the Progressive Era, of the progressive developments in Northern Italy, and of the situation of labor
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

American Journal of Sociology, 1988
There are two broad intellectual streams in the description and explanation of social action. One, characteristic of the work of most sociologists, sees the actor as socialized and action as governed by social norms, rules, and obligations. The principal virtues of this intellectual stream lie in its ability to describe action in social context and to ...
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