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Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation: Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong (Icas Publications) - Softcover

Wong, Sam

 
9789053560341: Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation: Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong (Icas Publications)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9053560343 ISBN 13: 9789053560341
Verlag: Routledge, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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 timely volume calls for an exploration of 'unseen' social capital

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Sam Wong is lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.

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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.

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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.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9053560343
ISBN 13 
9789053560341
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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