Social capital

Social capital is a socio-economic concept with a variety of inter-related definitions, based on the value of social networks.

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Socio-economic - Social network

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The modern usage of the term can be traced to sociologist Jane Jacobs in the 1960s, but was little used even in sociology until it was adopted by Pierre Bourdieu in 1986, and subsequently picked up initially by James Coleman and then others. For a time in the late 1990s, the concept was highly fashionable, with the World Bank devoting a research programme to it, and the concept achieving public awareness through Robert Putnam's 2000 book, Bowling Alone.

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Sociologist - Pierre Bourdieu - James Coleman - World Bank - Robert Putnam - Bowling Alone

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