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Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
Ben Fine
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Description for Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
Paperback. Forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines it touches. Series: IIPPE. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 figs. BIC Classification: JHBA; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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 McDonaldisation 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.
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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 McDonaldisation 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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
IIPPE
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745329963
SKU
V9780745329963
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About Ben Fine
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.
Reviews for Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
'A must-read for all irritated and irritable thinkers in social science'
Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University
Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University