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"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.
Subjects:
Social capital (Sociology) > Economic aspects.
Economics > Philosophy.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Social capital (Sociology)
Capital social (Sociologie)
Capital social (Sociologie) > Aspect économique.
Économie politique > Philosophie.
Economics, finance, business and management.
Economics.
Political economy.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • From rational choice to McDonaldisation
  • The short history of social capital
  • The BBI syndrome
  • Social capital versus social history
  • Social capital is dead : long live whatever comes next
  • Management studies goes to McDonald's
  • Degradation without limit
  • W(h)ither social capital?

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