Social capital and education
Essential readings
Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. The American Journal of Sociology 94, S95-S120
In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described...
Algan, Y., Cahuc, P. Shleifer, A. (2011). Teaching Practices and Social Capital. CEPR Discussion Paper n. 8625
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well...
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Helliwell, J. F., Putnam, R. D. (2007). Education and social capital. Eastern Economic Journal 33 (1)
Education is one of the most important predictors—usually, in fact, the most important...
Small, M. L. (2009). Unanticiped Games: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they...
Truscello, D. K. (2009). It Is Not What You Know But Whom You Know: Expanding Student Social Capital Networks of Knowledge through Critical Pedagogy
Because people learn within social capital networks, an educational praxis is needed within...
Yamamura, E. (2009). Dynamics of socialnext term trust and human previous termcapitalnext term in the learning process: The case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968–2005. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72 (1), 377-389
This paper examined the ways and the extent to which human capital and social trust are associated...