ISBN:
9782503548043
,
2503548040
Language:
English
Pages:
310 S.
,
graph. Darst., Kt.
Series Statement:
Rural history in Europe 11
Series Statement:
Rural history in Europe
DDC:
900
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1945
;
Rural conditions Social aspects
;
Social networks
;
Ländlicher Raum
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Politik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ländlicher Raum
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 1500-1945
Abstract:
This book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discuss methods of historical interpretation, social network analysis, and econometrics. The book analyses these topics in three steps. First, the authors address whether social relations can be of economic use. Secondly, they examine the institutional conditions for such a conversion of social into economic capital, reconstructing the often unexpected ways in which the economic and social spheres were connected both in "pre-modern" and in "modern" settings. Thirdly, they show how political institutions were constructed out of social networks
Abstract:
This book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discuss methods of historical interpretation, social network analysis, and econometrics. The book analyses these topics in three steps. First, the authors address whether social relations can be of economic use. Secondly, they examine the institutional conditions for such a conversion of social into economic capital, reconstructing the often unexpected ways in which the economic and social spheres were connected both in pre-modern and in modern settings. Thirdly, they show how political institutions were constructed out of social networks
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