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Synopsis
Explores the origins of the idea of social capital and its diverse meanings in the work of James Coleman Pierre Bourdieu and of Robert Putman - who is responsible more than any other, through his work on Italy and the United States, for its rise.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The idea of social capital – meaning, most simply put, 'social connections' – was unheard of outside a small circle of sociologists until very recently. Now, it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the 'missing link' in international development and has become the subject of a flurry of books and research papers. Harriss asks why this notion should have taken off in the dramatic way that it has done and finds in its uses by the World Bank the attempt, systematically, to obscure class relations and power.
Biographie de l'auteur
John Harriss is Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting researcher at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, India and has published extensively on aspects of India's political economy.
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