Social Capital, Karl Polanyi, and American Social and Institutional Economics

Carroll, Michael; Stanfield, James Ronald

doi:10.1080/00213624.2003.11506587

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“…Any social system with hierarchical features will produce elite groups who have easy entry into senior roles. Social capacities have an apparent kinship with the notion of social capital, which is often assumed to entail close personal relations that would support a high social capacity to act (Coleman, 1988;Dasgupta and Serageldin, 1999;Killerby and Wallis, 2002;Carroll and Stanfield, 2003). The term 'social capital' has been defined quite loosely, however, and roams beyond personal relations: it may include formal or informal roles in organisations, or membership of categories such as the 'poor' or 'disabled'.…”

Section: Structural Capacities To Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure

Jackson¹

2005

Review of Social Economy

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Sen's capability approach has a culturally specific side, with capabilities influenced by social structures and institutions. Although Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms and makes little allowance for culture or social structure. The present paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability approach could be developed to give an explicit treatment of cultural and structural matters. Capabilities depend not only on entitlements but on institutional roles and personal relations: these can be represented openly if capabilities are disaggregated into individual, social and structural capacities. The three layers interact, and a full analysis of capabilities should consider them all. A stratified method implies that raising entitlements will not on its own be enough to enhance capabilities and that cultural and structural changes will be needed.

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Section: Structural Capacities To Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure

Jackson¹

2005

Review of Social Economy

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“…It has a positive connotation in the local economic development atmosphere (Blair & Carroll, 2008). Nevertheless, as Carroll and Stanfield (2003) point out, social capital can have negative consequences. For example, changes stemming from the external environment can also fracture the bonds required for effective capital.…”

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confidence: 97%

Informal Economic Activities in Industrialized Nations: Insights From Belgium and the United Kingdom

Agiro

Matusitz

Breen

2015

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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This study examines how informal economic activities (IEAs) can be (re)formalized in a way that will not destroy their potential for being assets for community development. The very concept of collaborative development in public administration is applied to social work's asset-based community development (ABCD). This cross-application enables the exploration of alternatives for the challenges encountered in IEAs within industrialized nations. The authors argue that IEAs differ from the underground economy and deserve a different policy response. Social capital will be the overarching framework. Studies of two Western European countries (specifically, Belgium and the UK) will be used as examples.

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“…Social networks can also be a basis for exploitation and social marginalisation (Kabeer 2000). Other negative externalities highlighted in the literature include fostering crime, behaviour detrimental to health, educational underachievement, social exclusion and barriers to social mobility (Portes 1998;Fine 1999;Carroll and Stanfield 2003;Torpe 2003;DiFalco and Bulte 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Measuring social networks in three Zambian villages

Leavy

2015

Journal of Development Effectiveness

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The crucial role played by social context and social networks in exchange behaviour, and the social-embeddedness of resources in rural sub-Saharan Africa are well documented. Social-embeddedness means more than belonging to and participating in groups. This presents a challenge in formalising socially embedded market transactions within standard economics frameworks. Different social networks measures are constructed using data from three Zambian villages and analysed to demonstrate that network properties differ significantly for different people. The way we measure networks matters. Such fine-grained measures will help future work in analysing the role social networks and social-embeddedness play in people's lives and decision-making.

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Social Capital, Karl Polanyi, and American Social and Institutional Economics

Cited by 54 publications

References 10 publications

Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure

Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure

Informal Economic Activities in Industrialized Nations: Insights From Belgium and the United Kingdom

Measuring social networks in three Zambian villages

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