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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fine, Ben
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Political economy and development.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-259) and index.
ISBN:9781849644426
184964442X
9781783716555
178371655X
0745329969
9780745329963
0745329977
9780745329970