Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life

By: Eric M. Uslaner (Editor), Paul Dekker (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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This timely volume puts emphasis on the effect of social capital on everyday life: how the routines of daily life lead people to get involved in their communities. Focussing on its micro-level causes and consequences, the book''s international contributors argue that social capital is fundamentally concerned with the value of social networks and about how people interact with each other.
The book suggests that different modes of participation have different consequences for creating - or destroying - a sense of community or participation. The diversity of countries, institutions and groups dealt with - from Indian castes to Dutch churches, from highly competent ''everyday makers'' in Scandinavia to politics-avoiding Belgian women and Irish villagers - offers fascinating case studies, and theoretical reflections for the present debates about civil society and democracy.

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"[This book] brings together an international portfolio of research to explore the development and consequences of social capital in everyday life....The collective work is...a significant contribution to debates over social capital. It leads us toward more nuanced articulations of the concept, at the same time, it usefullly undermines the idea that social capital can be unproblematically viewed as some form of social elixir....It is a significant volume, both for its theoretical claims and for the range of methodological strategies its contributors employ." -"VOLUNTAS, International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

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Introduction
Social capital: the missing link?
Social capital in a multicultural society: the case of Canada
The different faces of social capital in NSW Australia
Studying civic culture ethnographically and what it tells us about social capital: communities in the West of Ireland
Traditional communities, caste and democracy: the Indian mystery
Religion and volunteering in the Netherlands
Volunteering and social capital: how trust and religion shape civic participation in the United States
'Getting to trust': an analysis of the importance of institutions, families, personal experiences and group membership
Membership and democracy
The Everyday Maker: building political rather than social capital
'Not for our kind of people': the sour-grapes phenomenon as a casual mechanism for political passivity
The social in social capital
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