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 |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London ; New York : New York :
Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Series: | Political economy and development.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | 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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-259) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849644426 184964442X 9781783716555 178371655X 0745329969 9780745329963 0745329977 9780745329970 |