A Critical Handbook of Capitals Mushrooming Across the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9783659415562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str.

Tittenbrun Jacek

Opis

The book is the first this comprehensive analysis of a set of concepts currently much in vogue across all the social scieces. Human capital, social capital, cultural capital, and an array of their less known realatives are criticallly examined, a number of common flaws of those notions being exposed. To put it in a nutshell, the fad in question is a vivid example of economic imperialism. Cognitive merits of the concepts involved are found to be negative, so that the final conclusion and advice to all social scientists is to discard this economistic framework altogether.

O autorze

Jacek Tittenbrun is a sociologist, with broad interdisciplinary interests in economics, anthropology, philosophy, political science, and other social sciences. He currently teaches at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His list of publications is in a three-digit range. His latest books have been published by Ashgate, Transaction, CSP.