Since the middle of the 1990s the concept of social capital has provoked rapidly growing
interest. Social theorists, policy makers and those ngo s working on the edge of theory and …

Social capital theory has tended to treat social cohesion as a mere aggregation of individual
and community-level characteristics, ignoring the long tradition of theory on social solidarity …

Conventional wisdom suggests that citizens in many countries have become disengaged
from the traditional channels of political participation. Commentators highlight warning signs …

Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social
processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel …

The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream
economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they …

During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services
in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for …

This article argues that contemporary interest in social capital by community development
theorists, funders, and practitioners is misguided and needs to be thoroughly rethought. It …

El concepto de capital social hace hincapié sobre varios factores que no son nuevos, pero
que no han sido tomados en cuenta durante el auge de la economía neoclásica y las …

Does social capital provide a viable means for advancing economic development,
promoting ethnic peace, and strengthening democratic governance? This question has …

The terms terror, terrorism, and terrorist do not identify causally coherent and distinct social
phenomena but strategies that recur across a wide variety of actors and political situations …