Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly, 2010
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د. فرغلى هارون
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عدد الرسائل : 3278 تاريخ التسجيل : 07/05/2008
موضوع: Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly, 2010 21/12/2010, 3:48 pm
Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly By Ben Fine Pluto Press, 2010 304 pages 2,2 MB
Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept. 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.
