Capitale sociale e povertà
Letture essenziali
Harriss, J. (2002). Depoliticizing Development: the World Bank and social capital. London: Anthem Press.
A unique investigation into the notion of social capital, analysing its misappropriation in...
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Cleaver, F. (2005). The inequality of social capital and the reproduction of chronic poverty. World Development 33 (6), 893-906
This paper draws on ethnographic research in Tanzania to question ideas inherent to mainstream...
Fafchamps, M. (2006). Development and social capital. Journal of Development Studies 42 (7), 1180-1198
This paper examines social capital and its relation with economic development. We focus on the role...
Frijters, P. (2013). An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to...
Mondal, A. H. (2001). Social capital formation: The role of NGO rural development programs in Bangladesh. Policy Sciences 33, 459-475.
Social capital can be generated by the expectations of the rural poor who are victimized by...
Small, M. L. (2002). Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project. American Journal of Sociology 108(1):1-54.
Recent work on neighborhood effects has rekindled interest in social organization theory and its...
Small, M. L. (2004). Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Villa Victoria examines how of a group of low-income Puerto Rican migrants with little formal...
Small, M. L. (2006). "Neighborhood Institutions as Resource Brokers: Childcare Centers, Inter-Organizational Ties, and Resource Access Among the Poor. Social Problems 53(2):274-92.
Current theories of how individuals in poor neighborhoods access information and resources have...
Small, M. L. (2009). Unanticiped Games: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they...
Small, M. L., McDermott, M. (2006). The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects. Social Forces 84(3):1697-1724.
Wilson (1987) and others argue that poor neighborhoods lack important organizational resources the...
Small, M. L., Newman, K. (2001). Urban Poverty after The Truly Disadvantaged: The Rediscovery of the Family, the Neighborhood, and Culture. Annual Review of Sociology 27:23-45.
In what follows we critically assess a selection of the works on urban poverty that followed the...
Small, M. L., Stark, L. (2005). Are Poor Neighborhoods Resource Deprived? A Case Study of Childcare Centers in New York. Social Science Quarterly 86(s1):1013-36.
Objective. Many social scientists believe poor mothers are better off in middle-class than in poor...
