Social Capital and Education: A Digest
What the concept of social capital has brought to the debate is, at bottom, an interest in the pay offs that arise from our relationships. The idea that social capital returns tangible benefits to its...
View ArticleSocial Capital and Pierre Bourdieu: A Digest
Pierre Bourdieu is a sociologist who’s interest focused on social class and stratification along with inequality. His perspectives evolved through trying to develop a cultural anthropology of social...
View ArticleThe Differences Arise In Group Psychology
The behaviour of the group is enigmatic. A group acts in our minds as a corporate person in as much as we imagine what the norm is and normalize behaviour to what this imagined person embodies. This...
View ArticleDisappearing Social Spaces and The Third Place
Before the core settings of an informal public life can be restored to the urban landscape and re-established in daily life, it will be necessary to articulate their nature and benefit. The core...
View ArticleFloating Classrooms: A Model For Mobile Teaching
The nature of the Floating Classroom project is to develop the affordances around going into communities and opening up spaces which are equipped to cultivate threads of interest which reside in those...
View ArticleConference: Developing Social Capital; From Promises to Knowledge Exchange
This paper was written and presented by Alex Dunedin and Susan Brown at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) Annual Conference 2012. The theme of the conference was ‘Promises:...
View ArticleThe World Bank and Social Capital by Juan Guerra
Hi, my name is Juan. Many years ago, I fundraised my way into university. I could have missed out because of money and that sparked a fire in me: I decided to dedicate my career to making poverty...
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