The myth of social capital in community development

By J. DeFilippis. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Social Region (2005, background): “‘Social capital’ in particular receives a very broad content and is susceptible to alternative interpretation (Bourdieu, 1977; cited by Healey 1997; Putnam, 1993; Defilippis, 2001; Moulaert and Ailenei, forthcoming).”
Sectoral Differentiation and Network Structure Within Contemporary Worldwide Corporate Networks (2011, background): “According to De Filippis (2001), social networks encompass hierarchies of power; otherwise, they would not be networks in the first place.”
Rethinking Community Economic Development (2006, background): “This specific way relates to the rules that govern how a community functions (DeFilippis, 2001; Taylor-Ide & Taylor, 2002).”
The Promise of the Sharing Economy among Disadvantaged Communities (2015, background): “Consistent with findings from the previous section, past sociology research [5, 8], and past HCI findings of disadvantaged communities [7, 11], individuals in these communities requested linking ties to foster economic development.”
Macro-level determinants of formal entrepreneurship versus informal entrepreneurship (2014, neutral): “Similarly, DeFilippis (2001) posits that economic growth is the cause of social capital decline.”
Finding Common Ground: The Importance of Place Attachment to Community Participation and Planning (2006, background): “DeFilippis (2001), however, offers a more constructive critique, arguing that “social capital” is “an elastic term with a variety of meanings” (p. 782).”
Community Psychology Perspectives on Social Capital Theory and Community Development Practice (2002, background): “DeFilippis (2001), following Bourdieu (1985), makes a similar argument in referring to the “myth of SC in community development.””
The production of social capital in US counties (2006, background): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.001 concept is overwhelming, it is not free of detractors (e.g.,Portes, 1998; Arrow, 2000; Solow, 2000; DeFilippis, 2001; Durlauf, 2002).”
Defining the Social Economy and its Governance at the Neighbourhood Level: A Methodological Reflection (2005, methodology): “To analyse these links, we clarify the concept of social capital, following DeFilippis (2001) in his criticism of Putnam (1993a, 1993b, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000).”
Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown (2004, background): “…with Theda Skocpol and colleagues (Skocpol 1996; Skocpol, Gans and Munson 2002; Crowley and Skocpol 2001; see also, Foley and Edwards 1996, DeFilippis 2001), the social mobilization camp takes issues with Putnam's assessment of “civil community” arguing that it glosses over real, and…”
Generating Social Capital? (2007, background): “DeFillipis (2001) is particularly critical of the manner in which Putnam and his followers have conflated the concept with a neoTocquevillean view of civil society in which only the positive aspects of social capital for promoting democracy and sustaining economic development are in focus.”