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"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"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Equality as Independence -- Chapter 2: The Rise of the Self-Made Man -- Chapter 3: The Self-Made Man and the Citizen in a Segregated, Corporate Society -- Chapter 4: The New Deal and the Transformation of Citizenship -- Chapter 5: The Upwardly Mobile Society -- Chapter 6: Civil Rights and Group Equalization -- Chapter 7: Categorical Inequality in an Era of Polarization and Contradiction -- Bibliography -- Index.

In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings migrants from some countries to others, or why members of different immigrant groups experience widely varying outcomes in their community settings, occupational opportunities, and educational outcomes? This timely book examines the major issues in social capital research, showing how economic and social contexts shape networks in the process of migration, and assesses th

Acknowledgement -- Introduction : the new second generation coming of age -- Immigration : past and present trends -- Assimilation : classical and neo-classical theories -- Segmented assimilation -- Social mobility -- Identity formation : ethnicization and racialization -- Twenty-first century america : new destinations, new experiences, and future prospects -- References

Introduction -- Anomie and Deviance -- Bureaucracies -- Capitalism -- Caste Systems -- Causal Relationships -- Churches, Denominations, and Sects -- Civil Religion and Politics -- Class Consciousness and Class Conflict -- Collective Behavior -- Conflict Theory -- Cultural and Structural Assimilation -- Cultural Norms and Sanctions -- Cultural Transmission Theory of Deviance -- Culture: Material and Expressive Culture -- Culture and Language -- Culture of Poverty -- Democracy -- Demographic Factors and Social Change -- Demography -- Deviance: Analysis and Overview -- Deviance: Functions and Dysfunctions -- Dramaturgy -- Education -- Education: Conflict Theory Views -- Education: Functionalist Perspectives -- Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Family: Functionalist Versus Conflict Theory Views -- Functionalism -- Gender Inequality: Analysis and Overview -- Gender Inequality: Biological Determinist Views -- History of Sociology -- Horticultural Economic Systems -- Hunting and Gathering Economic Systems -- Hypotheses and Hypothesis Testing -- Immigration and Emigration -- Industrial and Postindustrial Economies -- Industrial Sociology -- Knowledge -- Labeling and Deviance -- Legitimacy and Authority -- Looking-Glass Self -- Marriage Types -- Marxism -- Medical Sociology -- Microsociology -- Modernization and World-System Theories -- Political Sociology -- Poverty: Analysis and Overview -- Power Elite -- Prejudice and Discrimination: -- Prejudice and Stereotyping -- Protestant Ethic and Capitalism -- Qualitative Research -- Quantitative Research -- Race and Racial Groups -- Race Relations: The Race-Class Debate -- Racial and Ethnic Stratification -- Religion -- Religion: Functionalist Analyses -- Religion: Marxist and Conflict Theory Views -- Role Conflict and Role Strain -- Samples and Sampling Techniques -- Secularization in Western Society -- Significant and Generalized Others -- Social Change: Sources of Change -- Social Groups -- Social Mobility: Analysis and Overview -- Social Stratification: Analysis and Overview -- Social Stratification: Functionalist Perspectives -- Social Stratification: Marxist Perspectives -- Social Stratification: Weberian Perspectives -- Socialization: Religion -- Socialization: The Family -- Socialization: The Mass Media -- Sociobiology and the Nature-Nurture Debate -- Sociology Defined -- Statuses and Roles -- Structural-Strain Theory of Deviance -- Subcultures and Countercultures -- Suicide -- Surveys -- Symbolic Interaction -- Technology and Social Change -- Urbanization -- Validity and Reliability in Measurement -- Values and Value Systems -- War and Revolution -- Workplace Socialization -- Glossary -- Category List -- Index