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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health / Eric Nauenberg -- pt. I THEORIES ON HOW SOCIAL CAPITAL IMPROVES HEALTH -- 2.How does social capital contribute to health? / Sherman Folland -- 3.History of social capital and health / M. Kamrul Islam -- 4.How social capital arises in areas / Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno -- pt. II SPECIAL INQUIRIES ON SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HEALTH -- 5.Social capital and health across the life cycle / Eric Nauenberg -- 6.Religious and social capital and health / Chen Sharony -- pt. III EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL IMPROVE HEALTH? -- 7.Social capital in epidemiology / Martin Lindstrom -- 8.Social capital and aging brain health / Nicole D. Anderson -- 9.Social capital and types of illness: where is it most effective? / Oddvar Martin Kaarbee -- 10.Social capital and risk-taking behavior / Sherman Folland -- pt. IV CAUSALITY ISSUES

Social capital is in danger of going the way of political culture—a potentially powerful concept that is given many different meanings by many different people for many different purposes. This article starts by picking out three different aspects or dimensions of the concept—norms (especially trust), networks, and consequences. It then considers three models of social capital and the forms of trust and democracy associated with them. Finally it discusses the role of voluntary associations as a foundation for social capital, arguing that their importance may be overstated in the classical Tocquevillean model of the 19th century, and that, in any case, modern democracy may be increasingly based on different forms of trust and association.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development: An Introduction -- Introduction -- The Issue -- Resource Bargains -- Types of Domestic Resources and Recent Policy Trends -- Research Themes, Hypotheses, and Case Studies -- Overview of the Volume -- References -- Part I: Domestic Resource Mobilization Through the Lens of Aid, Taxation and Mineral Rents -- 2: Fiscal Capacity and Aid Allocation: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Foreign Aid in Developing Countries -- Introduction -- Rationale and Motivation -- Aid Allocation, Fiscal Capacity and Performance: What Does the Literature Say? -- Cross-Country Empirical Analysis and Discussion -- Overview of Country Cases -- Taxation and Fiscal Performance -- Tax Effort Index -- Donor Involvement in Taxation and Public Financial Management -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 3: Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can Foreign Aid Act as a Catalyst? -- Introduction -- Prominent Views on Aid for Social Transfers -- Methodology -- Empirical Evidence from Twelve African Cases -- Influence of Foreign Aid in the Origins of the Selected Schemes -- Social, Political and Financial Sustainability of the Schemes -- Ways Forward for Transformative Change -- Strengthening Citizen-State Relations -- Ensuring a Human Rights-Based Approach -- Contributing to a Broader Transformative Agenda -- References -- 4: How Can Governments of Low-Income Countries Collect More Tax Revenue? -- Introduction -- Dangling Fruit -- Transfer Mispricing in International Economic Transaction -- Mining -- Tobacco and Alcohol -- Exemptions -- Implementing VAT -- Taxing the Rich -- Property Taxes -- Changing Tax Policies.

The fact that the debate concerning copyright in a digital society has been both intense and filled with polemic conflicts ever since the late 1990s makes it clear that it is a most complicated issue to solve, or even grasp. Basically, both the legal and societal discussion and development are explicitly dependent on a greater understanding of the on-going processes surrounding copyright. This presents a well-suited point of departure for research such as the one conducted within the Cybernorms research group – both in terms of providing valuable insights into the field of sociology of law when it comes to understanding how to relate to the framework provided by digitalization in general and the Internet in particular, and in terms of providing more accurate knowledge and toolsets to legislators in related fields.

"Power Exercise explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life. The chapters reveal that the power potential of linguistic elements is dependent on context and is by no means fixed or predetermined, which provides implications for research methodology"--

Intro -- Remembering Digitally -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Concepts in Digitizing Individual and Community Memory -- Digitalized Memory and the Loss of Social Memory -- Memory and Place: From Ancient Individual Memory to Cyberspace as Contemporary Collective Memory Segah Sak -- Part 2: Digitized Memories -- Social and Technological Influences on Engagement with Personal Memory Objects: A Media Roles Perspective -- How Digitalization has Unveiled Secret Memories: The Case of Samizdat Writings -- Part 3: Memory Architectures -- Objects of Storytelling and Digital Memory (MEMO) -- Digital Memories and Rhetorical Devices: A Temporal Analysis of the Web.

Rural community development is one of the central rural sociological
concepts. The idea itself deserves double attention: from the point of its
theoretical foundation and from the perspective of the need to be
operationalized because of research and rural development planning. In this
paper, the idea of rural development is being approached from the aspect of
social vitality as a new/old concept. The concept of social vitality is being
defined and operationalized in order to indicate the possibilities of this
concept as an analytical tool for researching rural development.

Jan Gothard is an associate professor at Murdoch University and a former editor of the Oral History Association of Australia Journal. She is the author of Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia, which won the Western Australia Premier's Prize for History, and the general editor of the Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia. She is also the recipient of the Australian government's Centenary Medal for services to literature and to society. Professor Fiona Stanley, AC, is a professor in the School of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and t

This article analyses moral dilemmas around aspects of care from gender and class perspectives. Based on quantitative data and qualitative research for the surrounding area of Buenos Aires, we probe how contemporary women and men in Argentina organise, experience and perceive the relationship between working life and their responsibilities for caring for family members. A situated ethics of care, as explored in the article, reinforces the notion that care is always contextual – it can only be understood within a social and political milieu – and presents distinctions among subjects that hold unequal positions in class and gender hierarchies.

The gender digital divide is a well-known research and policy topic. Policy discourses emphasise the inclusion aspect focusing on equal opportunities and economic empowerment. Critical analyses of the inclusion narrative stress its universalist and normative perspective which implicitly excludes and determines what gender technology inclusion means. This contribution focuses on an alternative perspective developed in Latin America: appropriation of technologies. This approach foregrounds the socio-cultural and economic inequalities present in the Global South. Based on a case study of a transfeminist IT community from Argentina, this paper analyses the transformative aspects of this collective's imaginary and practices. It argues that this approach is relevant to other Global South contexts where similar communities exist and provides us with a better understanding of possibilities and limits of inclusion in the digital technologies sector.

Dissemination of the statement written by 20 leading biological and social scientists in Seville, Spain, May 16, 1986. Includes the full text.

List of figures, tables and boxes; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Acknowledgements; Part I: Conceptual dilemmas; 1 Locating the social economy; 2 Social economy: engaging as a third system?; Part II: International evidence; 3 Building community economies in Massachusetts: an emerging model of economic development?; 4 Working for social enterprises: does it make a difference?; 5 Experimenting with economic possibilities: ethical economic decision-making in two Australian community enterprises; 6 Building community-based social enterprises in the Philippines: diverse development pathways.

Apartado conceptual sobre el capital social / Rafael Cedillo Delgado -- Diseño metodológico y resultados de la investigación de campo / Miguel Ángel Sánchez Ramos -- Redes sociales e incidencia ciudadana mexiquense / Gisela Carolina Flores Flores -- Gestión local : entre la confianza y la satisfacción ciudadana / Miguel Ángel Sánchez Ramos -- Derechos humanos y capital social / Arturo A. González Torices -- El capital social en el reconocimiento de los derechos políticos, civiles y sociales del individuo / Gregorio Cisneros Rancho -- Participación política electoral en el Estado de México / Ricardo Cortés Padilla -- Capital social y participación institucional en el Estado de México / Rafael Cedillo Delgado y María del Pilar Silva Rivera -- Bibliografía sobre capital social recomendada / Luis Alejandra Sánchez Romero y María Cristina Camarillo Martínez

Political parties are central to democratic life, yet there is no standard definition to describe them or the role they occupy. "Voter-centered" theoretical approaches suggest that parties are the mere recipients of voter interests and loyalties. "Party-centered" approaches, by contrast, envision parties that polarize, democratize, or dominate society. In addition to offering isolated and competing notions of democratic politics, such approaches are also silent on the role of the state and are unable to account for organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the African National Congress, which exhibit characteristics of parties, states, and social movements simultaneously. In this timely book, Cedric de Leon examines the ways in which social scientists and other observers have imagined the relationship between parties and society. He introduces and critiques the full range of approaches, using enlivening comparative examples from across the globe. Cutting through a vast body of research, de Leon offers a succinct and lively analysis that outlines the key thinking in the field, placing it in historical and contemporary context. The resulting book will appeal to students of sociology, political science, social psychology, and related fields.