Social Capital Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

Social capital, a new idea gaining worldwide recognition, is explored in this book through studies of education, health, political science, urban regeneration, and economic development. Providing a unique overview of the topic, together with critical discussion of its application in a wide variety of fields, the volume offers the first full critical analysis of social capital, written by academics, professionals and policy specialists who are all distinguished and prominent contributors in their own fields.

1. Social capital: a review and critique,Tom Schuller, Stephen Baron and John Field
2. Civil society and democratic renewal,Lindsay Paterson
3. Social capital, the economy and education in historical perspective,Simon Szreter
4. Economic, social capital and the colonization of the social sciences,Ben Fine and Francis Green
5. Socialising social capital: identity, the transition to work and economic development.,Ralph Fevre
6. Social capital, innovation and competitiveness,Peter Maskell
7. Refugees and social capital theory: social capital and social integration,Peter Loizos
8. Social capital trumping class and cultural capital? Engagement with school among immigrant youth,Jon Lauglo
9. Social capital, schools and exclusions,Pamela Munn
10. Social capital and health: contextualizing health promotion within local community networks,Catherine Campbell
11. Local social capital: making it work on the ground,Alex MacGillivray and Perry Walker
12. Social capital and associational life,William Maloney, Graham Smith and Gerry Stoker
13. Human capital, social capital and collective intelligence,Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder
14. Social capital and human capital revisited,John Field, Tom Schuller and Stephen Baron