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Edited by K.R. Gupta, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Prasenjit Maiti
From the flyer: "The book will prove immensely useful to the students and teachers of social sciences, researchers in this field, policymakers, social workers and organisations concerned with social welfare. It will be equally interesting and informative for the general readers." |
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Vol. I. Preface. 1. Social capital--an overview/K.R. Gupta. 2. Introduction of increasing scientific horsepower: social capital, cross-disciplinarity, and trust/Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen. 3. The role of social capital within regeneration; can building social capital benefit regeneration contexts? a review of the literature/Louise Warwick-Booth. 4. Defining social capital/David Conrad. 5. Social capital formation in rural, urban and suburban communities/David L. Debertin and Stephan J. Goetz. 6. Managing through social capital: the importance of social capital for women in combating social exclusion/Victoria Gosling. 7. Social capital: provoking promising and problematic/Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen. 8. Social capital and community heterogeneity/Hilde Coffe. 9. Gendering social capital theory/Sam Wong. 10. Some reflections on gift theory and social capital/Anne Gray. 11. Non-profit organizations, social capital and regional economic growth/Jesus Clemente; Carmen Marcuello and Fernando Pueyo. 12. Public sculpture and community social capital generation/David Conrad. 13. The role of social capital in research participation/Sally Lindsay and Simon Smith. Bibliography. Contributors.
Vol. II. Preface. 1. Engendering social capital: women workers and rural-urban networks in Indonesia's crisis/Rachel Silvey and Rebecca Elmhirst. 2. Trust and family/Eric M. Uslaner. 3. Trust and consequences/Eric M. Uslaner. 4. Knowledge sharing for developing social capital/Tapomoy Deb. 5. Complex cultures: rereading the story about health and social capital/Sara C. MacKian. 6. Do social trusters like immigrants? The impact of social capital on people's attitudes towards immigration/Francisco Herreros. 7. Social cohesion as factor in development/Ivor Chipkin. 8. The contribution of income, social capital, and institutions to human well-being in Africa/Mina Baliamoune-Lutz and Stefan Lutz. Contributors.
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