0415257530.Routledge.Social.Capital.Sep.2003.pdf

SOCIAL CAPITAL

The term ‘social capital’ is a way of conceptualising the intangible resources

of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life.

It has achieved considerable international currency in the social sciences

through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James

Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States and has been taken up

within politics and sociology as a means of explaining the decline of social

cohesion and community values in many western societies.

Social Capital is one of the first full overviews of the intense debate

surrounding this subject. This clear and comprehensive introduction

explains the theoretical underpinning of the subject, the empirical work

that has been done to explore its operation, and the effect that it has had

on policy making, particularly within such international governmental

bodies as the World Bank and the European Commission.

John Field is Director of the Division of Academic Innovation and

Continuing Education at the University of Stirling.

KEY IDEAS

S ERIES E DITOR : PETER HAMILTON, T HE O PEN U NIVERSITY , M ILTON K EYNES

Designed to compliment the successful Key Sociologists , this series covers

the main concepts, issues, debates and controversies in sociology and the

social sciences. The series aims to provide authoritative essays on central

topics of social science, such as community, power, work, sexuality,

inequality, benefits and ideology, class, family, etc. Books adopt a strong

individual ‘line’ constituting original essays rather than literary surveys,

and for lively and original treatments of their subject matter. The books

will be useful to students and teachers of sociology, political science,

economics, psychology, philosophy and geography.

Citizenship

KEITH FAULKS

Old Age

JOHN VINCENT

Class

STEPHEN EDGELL

Postmodernity

BARRY SMART

Community

GERARD DELANTY

Racism – second edition

ROBERT MILES AND

MALCOLM BROWN

Consumption

ROBERT BOCOCK

Risk

DEBORAH LUPTON

Culture

CHRIS JENKS

Sexuality

JEFFREY WEEKS

Globalization – second edition

MALCOLM WATERS

Social Capital

JOHN FIELD

Lifestyle

DAVID CHANEY

Transgression

CHRIS JENKS

Mass Media

PIERRE SORLIN

The Virtual

ROB SHIELDS

Moral Panics

KENNETH THOMPSON

SOCIAL CAPITAL

John Field

First published 2003

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,

or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including

photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or

retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

A catalog record for this book has been requested

ISBN 0-203-63408-X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-63748-8 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0–415–25753–0 HB

ISBN 0–415–25754–9 PB

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