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Theories of Social Capital

Researchers Behaving Badly

Ben Fine author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:11th Jan '10

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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 McDonaldisation 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.

'A must-read for all irritated and irritable thinkers in social science' -- Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University

ISBN: 9780745329963

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 351g

288 pages