Theories of social capital researchers behaving badly
"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&#...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Pluto Press
2010, 2010
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| Series: | Political economy and development
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "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 |
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| Item Description: | 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 |
| Physical Description: | ix, 271 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780745329970 0745329977 9780745329963 0745329969 |