Social Capital and Economics: Social Values, Power, and Social Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415834131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 268 str.

Asimina Christoforou; John Davis

Opis

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, determinants, and consequences of social capital. Social capital can be understood in terms of social norms and networks. It manifests itself in patterns of trust, reciprocity, and cooperation. The authors argue that the degree to which and the different ways in which people exhibit these distinctively social behaviours depend on how norms and networks elicit their values, reflect power relationships, and draw on their social identities. This volume accordingly adopts a variety of different concepts and measures that incorporate the variety of contextually-specific factors that operate on social capital formation.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction Social Capital: Social Values, Power, and Social Identity Part 2: Old problems, new questions  Part 3: Alternative theoretical frameworks Part 4: Social segregation and social capital  Part 5: The third sphere and the social economy

O autorze

Asimina Christoforou is Adjunct Professor, at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.

John B. Davis is Professor of Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.