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Theories of social capital : researchers behaving badly / Ben Fine

Fine, Ben,i1948- [Verfasser]

London [u.a.] : Pluto Press ;, 2010

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (ix, 271 pages) : Illustrations

Political economy and development

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-259) and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-1-84964-442-6 ; 1-84964-442-X ; 978-0-7453-2997-0

 

Soziales Kapital 

"Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldization of social theory. The rise and fall of social capital at the World Bank is critically explained as is social capital's growing presence in disciplines, such as management studies, and its relative absence in others, such as social history. Writing with a sharp critical edge, Fine not only deconstructs the roller-coaster presence of social capital across the social sciences but also draws out lessons on how (and how not) to do research."--Pub. desc.