It May be Social, But Why is it Capital? The Social Construction of Social Capital and the Politics of Language

By S. S. Smith, Jessica J. Kulynych. 2002

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Reexamining Social Class Differences in the Availability and the Educational Utility of Parental Social Capital (2008, background): “Sociologist James Coleman and French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu are most commonly recognized for introducing fundamental, albeit markedly different, conceptions of social capital to the study of social phenomena (Portes, 1998; Smith & Kulynych, 2002; Woolcock, 1998).”
Is Social Capital a Good Concept? (2012, unknown): “Although notably economists (Arrow 2000; Solow 2000; Ostrom 2000; Smith and Kulynych 2002) have argued that social capital is not capital in an economic sense and although all Putnamian definitions imply a different perception of social capital than in existing sociological definitions (Coleman’s…”
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank (2004, background): “Recent years have seen several efforts to ‘deconstruct the modes of discursive power’ that inhere within discussions of social capital generally [Smith and Kulynych, 2002] and of social capital and development in particular, especially at the World Bank [for example, Fine, 1999; 2001; Harriss,…”