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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Social Capital Creation by Higher Education Institutions: Fostering Partnerships for Common Goals -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework -- Social Capital: Concept and Rationale -- Social Capital Creation vis-à-vis Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) -- Social Capital Creation by HEIs: The Indian Context -- Indian Higher Education Sector: A Brief Overview -- Social Capital Creation by Indian HEIs: Role of External Actors -- Role Played by the Government and Civil Society -- Methodology -- Case Study 1 -- Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya (BPSMV), Sonepat, Haryana -- Introduction -- Institution's Overarching Mission Concerning SDGs, in Particular SDG 17 -- CUE/CE Activities Aimed at Social Capital Creation -- Use of Educational Activities to Serve the Community -- Authentic Learning Opportunities within the Community -- Creation of New Knowledge with the Community -- Partnerships Fostered and Social Networks Created -- External Social Capital -- Internal Social Capital -- Role Played During COVID-19 -- Case Study 2 -- Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G), Assam -- Introduction -- Institution's Overarching Mission with Respect to SDGs, in Particular SGG 17 -- CUE/CE Activities Aimed at Social Capital Creation -- Use of Educational Activities to Serve the Community -- Authentic Learning Opportunities within the Community -- Creation of New Knowledge with the Community -- Partnerships Fostered and Social Networks Created -- External Social Capital -- Internal Social Capital -- Role Played During COVID-19 -- Case Study 3 -- Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)- Jaipur, Rajasthan -- Introduction -- Institution's Overarching Mission Concerning SDGs, SDG-17 in Particular -- CUE/CE Activities Aimed at Social Capital Creation.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SOCIAL CAPITAL AND UNIVERSITY EFFECTIVENESS -- SOCIAL CAPITAL AND INNOVATION POLICY IN CROATIA: SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AS A SOURCE OF INNOVATION -- EMPOWERMENT ORIENTATION AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A BASIS FOR OCCUPATIONAL WELL-BEING IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES - A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN FINLAND -- DO FAMILY ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESSES BENEFIT MORE FROM SOCIAL CAPITAL THAN NONFAMILY BUSINESSES IN EMERGING ECONOMIES? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ETHICS: THEIR INFLUENCE ON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE HEALTH OF IMMIGRANT AND NATIVE-BORN RESPONDENTS IN CANADA AND THE USA -- SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE -- SOCIAL CAPITAL, MIGRATION AND THE WELFARE STATE -- THE INFLUENCE OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT ON CO-OCCURRING MATERNAL DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS IN SIX YEAR OLD CHILDREN -- SOCIAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION THROUGH BUILDING UP IRRIGATION WATER GOVERNANCE IN MONSOON ASIA-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON POLICY MEASURES -- SOCIAL CAPITAL: A CATALYST FOR SOCIAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA? -- LAND REGULARISATION FRAMEWORK: A HIDDEN SOCIAL CAPITAL IN FORMALISING INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN CITIES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN HOMOGENEOUS SOCIETIES: REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH IN JAPAN -- SOCIAL INTERACTION EFFECT ON INTERLEAGUE PLAY ATTENDANCE: THE CASE OF THE JAPAN PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE -- STATUS, FORMATION AND FUNCTION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT SETTINGS: EXAMPLES FROM BANGLADESHI ETHNIC COMMUNITIES -- CVC AS KNOWLEDGE BROKER MEDIATOR AND INTERVENTIONIST WITH A "BIRD'S EYE VIEW" - A DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVE -- SOCIALIZE THE INNOVATION IN YOUR BUSINESS MODEL THROUGH SOCIAL CAPITAL CREATION -- INDEX.

"Combining theoretical approaches with practical applications, Rethinking Social Capital delineates the meaning, uses, and problems surrounding the concept of social capital. Carl Bankston, a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh take on the topic, presenting an original way of understanding social capital as a process. The book provides key definitions of social capital, describing its functionality, the surrounding theoretical issues, and its relationship with social structure. Examining capital in its various forms, Bankston discusses the complications of defining social relationships in a financial resource analogy as investments in future outcomes, and proposes an alternative of an original structural model that approaches social capital as a process. Chapters then explore the major applications of social capital theory: to families, communities and education; to formal organizations and informal networks; to class, race, ethnicity and inequality; and to the nation-state. This cutting-edge book is invaluable in clarifying ambiguities surrounding the concept of social capital to students and scholars of the social sciences. Its practical applications will also prove useful to policy makers and public policy institutes"--

Metadata only record ; This paper looks at the relevance and contributions of social capital analysis to human geography and vise versa. The authors start by defining social capital and clarifying and distinguishing concepts, and critiques of Putnam's work. Social capital is simultaneously an economic, sociological, political, and geographical concept, but it must be distinguished from human capital, cultural capital, and networks. Social capital can be relevant to human geographers because of the focus on the relationship between locality and the 'emergent casual power'. Social capital in not reproduced nor is it fixed to a place (it is the interaction between agency and structure). The geography of social capital exists in the: 1) Compositional effects produce spatial variations. 2) Participation varies with location. 3) Voluntary sector develops unevenly. 4) Institutional structures can influence formation of social capital which can affect levels of participation. 5) Uneven development are likely to have an impact on the quality of social relationships and, therefore, on levels of social capital. The challenge now rests in developing spatially disaggregated indicators of social capital. Obtaining disaggregated data on dimensions of social capital is difficult whether one measures participation or trust. Still, social capital is used in explaining economic growth and uneven development. It might be relevant to explain intrastate patterns of uneven development, in understanding effectiveness of government institutions, and health inequalities. Change have moved towards multiple stakeholders approaches involving partnerships between state, private capital and civil society, this so called the "third way" has have placed the focus on social networks and social capital, but the paper cautions us of the dangers of uncritical application of concepts.

Japanese society is often said to be one with a high premium on social capital. Two major theses have been put forward with regard to social capital in the last few years. One, advanced by Putnam (1993), is that social capital enables democracy to work. In other words, the historically acquired and accumulated social capital in terms of the propensity of individuals to engage with others in community and associational life facilitates the task of democratically working out the resolution of conflicts of interest and collectively producing good public policy. The other, advanced by Fukuyama (1995), postulates that social capital allows the creation of prosperity. In other words, a high level of social capital enables business firms to take risks and stretch networks fully in the creation of wealth on a large scale for a prolonged period of time.

"What is 'social capital'? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work of critical media studies, Social Capital Online examines the idea within the new 'network spectacle' of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how such phenomena as online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new theoretical understanding of how the spectacularisation of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas – alienation and accumulation – new conceptions of which he argues are vital for understanding today's digital society."

Recent findings show an apparent erosion in the United States over the post-war years of 'social capital' understood as the propensity of individuals to associate together on a regular basis, to trust one another, and to engage in community affairs. This article examines the British case for

similar trends, finding no equivalent erosion. It proposes explanations for the resilience of social capital in Britain, rooted in educational reform, the transformation of the class structure, and government policy. It concludes by drawing some general lessons from the British case that stress the importance of the distributive dimensions of social capital and the impact that governments

can have on it.

Proponents of charter schools credit them with many advantages over traditional schools. One claim is that school choice yields increased parental participation in voluntary school activities—which we shall call education‐related social capital. In this article we test for the independent effect of school choice on education‐related social capital, controlling for general social capital and other potentially confounding variables. Studies of school choice invariably show that choosing parents have a greater level of general social capital than non‐choosing parents. Consequently, any increase in education‐related social capital could be spurious—due to the fact that choice parents start with atypically high levels of general social capital. We find under controlled conditions that school choice has a small but statistically significant effect on education‐related social capital. However, its effect is considerably smaller than for general social capital, as well as for other traditional predictors such as parental education and the school‐related home resources that parents may provide.

This paper proposes a model to analyze social capital in enterprise collaborative networks. We used qualitative and quantitative methods in a triangulation of information process. This model was built from a case study in an enterprise collaborative network, promoted by the Brazilian government. We focused on the identification of the social capital dimensions present in the network. We defend the importance of social capital evaluation in collaborative networks and the role of linking social capital, as an integrator concept. The "linking social capital" allows us to unify two approaches: one that considers only horizontal social relations and another that covers power relations. In this sense, we propose a model to analyze the linking social capital in collaborative networks, unifying the two different approaches.