Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium

By Pedro Tamayo. 2003

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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‘I Don’t Trust the Phone; It Always Lies’ (2007, background): “( Peter Makoye, Mjimwema, July 8, 2003) This brief analysis of the three case studies reveals the overlap between social interaction and business, otherwise known as social capital—the social aspects of economic activities (Fine 2001, 198).”
Research, knowledge, and the art of ‘paradigm maintenance’: the World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC) (2006, background): “Academic Ben Fine, in his deconstruction of the Bank’s social capital discourse and policy, reaches a related conclusion: ‘. . . in part through social capital, economists are gaining a leverage over the subject matter of other disciplines whilst their own economic principles remain unchallenged’ (2”
Energy poverty and social relations: A capabilities approach (2019, background): “collective action and institutions (or agency and structure) [48].”
Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development (2015, background): “…411–413. doi:10.1057/s41301-016-0020-6; published online 26 October 2016 problematic iterations and a host of criticisms about its deterministic and economistic pitfalls (e.g. Fine, 2001), Scoones maintains the importance of livelihoods frameworks as a multimethod and multi-disciplinary heuristic.”
Social capital, economic growth and regional development (2005, background): “Social capital is a complex phenomenon with mulimportance of a spatial-, or a regional-, based approach to understanding the formation and impact of social tiple possible outcomes and for some this complexity makes the concept chaotic (F, 2000).”
Unpacking social capital in Economic Development: How social relations matter (2007, background): “The literature on social capital and power suggests that the relationship is often negative, that is, social capital appears to be less effective in situations of inequality, control, and exclusion (Edwards and Foley 1997; Baron et al. 2000; Fine 2001; Harriss 2001; Molyneux 2002; Taylor and Leonard”
Social Capital as Obstacle to Development: Brokering Land, Norms, and Trust in Rural India (2015, background): “Several critics have pointed out the danger of circularity in this argument (Fine, 2001; Harriss, 2001; Harriss & de Renzio, 1997; Portes, 1998, 2000).”
Knowledge, learning and development: a post-rationalist approach (2006, background): “For example, discourses of ‘social capital’ may be framed by the World Bank (Fine, 2000; Harriss, 2002; McNeill, 2004), but the ways in which social capital is conceived and practised ‘on the ground’ is not simply the product of the Bank as an authoritative centre.”
The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective (2005, methodology): “Putnam’s (1993) work on Italy has been pronounced by the editor of the mainstream Quarterly Journal of Economics as the most cited contribution across the social sciences in the 1990s (Fine, 2001, 83).”
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank (2004, background): “Our primary interest is to draw out the implications for critical research on development organisations rather than to make a case for those termed as ‘social capitalists’ by other commentators [for example, Edwards, 2000; Fine, 2001].”
Social capital and sustainable development: Theories and concepts (2005, unknown): “However, several scholars (e.g. Fine, 1999; 2001; Harriss, 2002) opined that the triumphal tone encompassing the notion of social capital must be dealt with cautiously and carefully, and the concept investigated rigorously (Pantoja, 2000).”
Culture and Public Action (2004, background): “This version of social capital has been criticized for not being sufficiently concerned with issues of class distinction and power (Fine 2001), affected by reverse causality (the link may go from wealth to more group activity just as much as the other way around) (Portes 1998; Durlauf 2001), and…”
Towards a clearer understanding of `vulnerability' in relation to chronic poverty (2003, background): “Moreover, there is a need to move away from just viewing the perception of risks as being constrained solely by imperfect information but to recognise the relationship between structure and agency which can determine an understanding of, and response to, risk (for example see Wisner 1993, Kothari 20”
Globalisation, Education and Development: Ideas, Actors and Dynamics (2007, background): “Background paper to the World Bank's World Development Report 2000, Institute for International Economics, Washington DC; B. Fine (2001b) Development Policy in the Twenty -”