Portes argues that the concept of social [End Page 1057] capital has been badly mishandled in today's social sciences, especially by political scientists who have extended the concept in untenable ways. His own preferred definition is close to what can be found in the works of Coleman and ...
The narrowest definition of ‘globalization’ refers to the linking of the world's economies (e.g., free trade across borders) with the aim of promoting aggregate wealth and economic growth. Yet it readily expands to also include the free flow of capital and labor. A new cosmopolitan economi...
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A classic definition of social inequality comes from the sociologist Max Weber, who wrote that there are three fundamental types of inequality. The first is based in the marketplace and is “social class”. The second, and more important distinction, is
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4.1 Coleman's Definition of Social Capital Coleman clarifies the paradigm of social capital in his treatises Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital and Foundations of Social Theory (Coleman, 1988, 1990). According to Coleman's definition, social capital is intended to be a resource from...
An awareness that the rise of mechanized manufacturing would have implications for social life going far beyond the production of goods itself had been one of the central ideas stimulating the emergence ofsociologyas an intellectual discipline during the mid-nineteenth century. Before the growth ofindu...
“the conversion of revenues into capital” (the term refers not to the process, but the result). Saving as “nonconsumption,” if used “productively,” equaled investment. Productive use of savings was entrepreneurial investment in productive, i.e., income-generating and capacity-enhancing, ...
Since the late 1980’s, the concept of social capital has gained prominence in research and in the discourse of policy making[1]. This prominence has emerged from, and built upon, a long tradition in sociology and interdisciplinary fields of study that have considered patterns in human relations...