Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation : everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong /
"This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dyna...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Authors: | , |
| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2007.
|
| Series: | ICAS publications series. Monographs ;
2. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics and structural complexity in social capital building. Using ethnographic and participatory methods, this book calls for an exploration of 'unseen' social capital which is intended to challenge the mainstream understanding of 'seen' social capital. As such this book is useful to policy makers and practitioners"--Publisher's description |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048501052 9048501059 |