Theories of Social Capital

Researchers Behaving Badly

Ben Fine

Pluto Press

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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 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.

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Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He most recently co-authored From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences (2009) and serves on the Social Science Research Committee of the UK's Food Standards Agency.

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Theories of Social Capital
Researchers Behaving Badly
Ben Fine

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Pluto Press
March 2010
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ISBN: 9780745329963
ISBN10: 0745329969
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