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What is social capital
What
is social capital: basic concepts
Essential readings of this section include
the studies that have introduced the multidimensional concept of
social capital in the social sciences debate, influencing great
part of the following literature on this topic. Further readings
include some alternative views and few useful surveys of the literature
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Essential Readings
Becker, G. (1974), A
Theory of Social Interactions, Journal of Political Economy,
82, n. 6, pp. 1063-1093.
Bourdieu, P. (1986), The
Forms of Capital, in John G. Richardson (edt), Handbook of Theory
and Research in the Sociology of Education, New York, Greenwald
Press.
Coleman, J. (1988), Social
Capital in the Creation of Human Capital, American Journal of
Sociology 94, pp. 95-120.
Coleman, J. (1990), Foundations
of Social Theory, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Field, J. (2004), Social
Capital, London and New York, Routledge.
Fine, B. (2001), Social
Capital versus Social Theory. Political Economy and Social Science
at the Turn of the Millenium, London and New York, Routledge.
Granovetter, M. (1973), The
Strength Of Weak Ties, in American Journal of Sociology, 78,
pp. 1360-80.
Granovetter, M. (1985), Economic
Action And Social Structure: The Problem Of Embeddedness, in
American Journal of Sociology, n. 91, pp. 481-510.
Hooghe, M., Stolle, D. (eds) (2003), Generating
Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective,
New York, Palgrave.
North, D. (1990), Institutions,
Institutional Change And Economic Performance, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.
Putnam, R.D., Leonardi, R., Nannetti,
R.Y. (1993) Making
Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton
University Press, Princeton, trad. it. La tradizione civica nelle
regioni italiane, Mondadori, Milano.
Putnam, R. (2000), Bowling
Alone. The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York,
Simon & Schuster.
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Further Readings
Adam, F., Roncevic, B. (2005), Social
Capital: Recent Debates and Research Trends, Social Science
Information, 42(2), 155-183.
Ahn, T.K, Ostrom, E. (2002), Social
Capital and the Second-Generation Theories of Collective Action:
An Analytical Approach to the Forms of Social Capital, Paper
presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Boston, Ma, August 29-September 1, 2002.
Ahn, T.K., Ostrom, E. (eds) (2003), Foundations
of Social Capital, Cheltenham, U.K., Edward Elgar Publishing
Ltd.
Bagnasco, A., Piselli, F., Pizzorno,
A., Trigilia, C (2002), Capitale
sociale: istruzioni per l’uso, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Banfield, E.G. (1958), The
Moral Basis of a Backward Society, New York, Free Press.
Becker, G. (1996), Accounting
for Tastes, Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1980), Le capital social.
Notes provisoires, Actes, n. 31, 2-3.
Burt, R.S. (2000), Structural
Holes versus Network Closure as Social Capital, in Lin, N.,
Cook, C.S., Burt, R.S. (eds), Social capital: Theory and Research,
New York, Aldine de Gruyter.
Bruni, L., Sugden, R. (2000), Moral
Canals: Trust and Social Capital in the Work of Smith, Hume and
Genovesi, Economics and Philosophy, 16, 21-45.
Burt, R.S. (1992), Structural
Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Burt, R.S. (2000), The
Network Structure of Social Capital, in R.I. Sutton, B.M. Staw
(edt), Research in Organizational Behavior, Greenwich, Jai Press.
Durlauf, S.N., Fafchamps, M. (2004), Social
Capital, The Centre for The Study of African Economies Working
Paper Series, No. 214, The Berkeley Economic Press.
Evans, P. (1996), Government
Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on
Synergy, World Development, 24(6), 1119-1132.
Farr, J. (2003), Social
Capital. A Conceptual History, Political Theory, Vol. 31 No.
X, Month 2003 1-28.
Fukuyama, F. (1999), Social
Capital and Civil Society, Paper prepared for delivery at the IMF
Conference on Second Generation Reforms, November 8-9, 1999,
IMF Institute and the Fiscal Affairs Department, Washington, D.C.
Fukuyama, F. (2003), Still
Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism, CSES
Working Paper Series, No. 3, Center for the Study of Economy and
Society, Cornell University.
Gabbay, S.M., Leenders, R.A.J. (eds) (2001), Social
Capital of Organizations, Amsterdam, JAI Press, vol. 18: 2001.
Glaeser, E.L., Laibson, D. e Sacerdote,
B. (2000), The
Economic Approach To Social Capital, NBER Working Paper Series,
n. 7728, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Ma.
Guiso, L. (2007), Social Capital as Culture, slides of the Marshall Lecture held at the joint European meeting of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society (EEA/ESEM) in Budapest, Hungary, August 27 – 31, 2007.
Jackson, M.O. (2005), The
economics of social networks, Social Science Working Paper 1237,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
Jacobs, J. (1961), The
Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York, Random House.
Johnston G., Percy-Smith J. (2003), In
search of social capital, Policy & Politics, 1 July 2003,
vol. 31, no. 3, 321-334(14).
Hanifan, L.J. (1916), The Rural School
Community Centre, Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Sciences, 67, 130-38.
Homans, G. (1961), Social Behavior:
Its Elementary Forms, New York, Harcourt, Brace and World.
Harrison, L.E., Huntington, S.P. (2001), Culture
Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, New York, Basic Books.
Lin, N. (2001), Social
capital. A theory of social structure and action, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
Paldam, M. (2000), Social
Capital: One Or Many? Definition And Measurement, in Journal
of Economic Surveys, 14, 5, pp. 629-653.
Portes, A. (1998), Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology,
Annual Review of Sociology 24: 1-24.
Putnam, R.D., Feldstein, L. (2003), Better
Together: Restoring the American Community, New York, Simon
& Schuster.
Sabatini, F. (2004), "Il concetto di capitale sociale
nelle scienze sociali. Una rassegna della letteratura economica,
sociologica e politologica, Studi e Note di Economia, No. 2/2004,
73-105.
Sabatini, Fabio (2006), The
Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical
Perspective, FEEM Working Paper 15.06, January 2006, Eni Enrico
Mattei Foundation, Milan.
Sandefur, R.L.,
Laumann, E.O. (1998), A Paradigm for Social Capital, Rationality
and Society 10(4), 481-501.
Seeley, J.R., Sim, A.R., Loosley, E.W.
(1956), Crestwood Heights: A Study of The Culture of Suburban Life,
New York, Basic Books.
Siisiäinen, M. (2000), Two
Concepts of Social Capital: Bourdieu vs. Putnam, Paper presented
at ISTR Fourth International Conference The
Third Sector: For What and for Whom? Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland, July 5-8, 2000.
Uslaner, E. (2000), The
Moral Foundations of Trust, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.
Van Staveren, I. (2002), Social
Capital: What Is In It for Feminist Economics?, Institute of
Social Studies, The Hague, Working Paper No. 368.
Wallis,
J., Killerby, P., Dollery, B. (2003), Social
Economics and Social Capital, University of New England, School
of Economics, Working Papers Series in Economics, No. 2003-04.
Woolcock, M. (1998), Social capital
and economic development: toward a theoretical synthesis and policy
framework, Theory and Society 27,2 (1998), 151-208.
Woolcock, M., Narayan, D. (2000), Social
Capital: Implications for Development Theory, The World Bank
Research Observer, 15, pp. 225-251.
World Bank (1998), The
Initiative on Defining, Monitoring and Measuring Social Capital.
Overview and Program Description, Washington, World Bank, Social
Development Department.
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