Social Capital Versus Social Theory

By B. Fine. 2000

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Generating Social Capital? (2007, background): “Such a focus is the starting point of Fine’s elaborate critique (Fine and Green, 2000; Fine, 2001) in which such methodological individualism is taken as indicative of a neo-liberal effort to reduce the social to the individual and further the efforts of a neo-liberal and rational-choice obsessed…”
Non-Economic Factors in Economic Geography and in 'New Regionalism': A Sympathetic Critique (2006, background): “critics emphasize (Harris, de Rezio,1997;Mouritsen, 2003; Fine 2001; de Fillipis, 8”
Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa (2007, background): “Pro-BIG arguments are generously seeded with this sort of language that recasts social spending as "investing" in a kind of "capital" (see Fine 2000 for a useful critique of "social capital" theory).”
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, background): “The so-called ‘Italian work’ (Putnam et al 1993) 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 ).”