Theories of Social Capital - Researchers Behaving Badly

Informationen zum Autor Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of the critical texts, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics (Pluto, 2016), co-author of Marx's 'Capital' (Pluto, 2016) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State (Pluto, 2013). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009. Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung Forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines it touches.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Fine
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9780745329970
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2997-0
• No. of pages: 271
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: IIPPE; Political Economy and Developm; IIPPE; Political Economy and Developm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Economy