ABSTRACT
The notion of capital has enjoyed a rich career in the social sciences, its use across a range of subjects and in diverse academic and professional contexts having served to establish its conceptual status as 'given'. With particular attention to human and social capital - including cultural capital - this book traces the roots of this theoretical and conceptual trend to economics, revealing the proliferation of various forms of capital to be based upon an encroachment of the conceptual apparatus of economics into other social sciences. Offering an in-depth, critical analysis of the concepts of human and social capital, as well as their surrounding theories, Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural proposes an alternative theoretical framework, whilst better explaining the realities that they mask in economic terms. A rigorous exploration of the most popular forms of 'capital' in the contemporary social sciences, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, political and social theory, demography and economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
part |103 pages
Human Capital
chapter |6 pages
Background
chapter |16 pages
Theory and Reality
chapter |24 pages
Human Capital in the Corporation
part |72 pages
Social Capital
chapter |36 pages
Social Capital as Civic Engagement
chapter |14 pages
Social Capital as a Multi-Misnomer
chapter |10 pages
Trust
chapter |10 pages
Human Capital and Social Capital
part |62 pages
Cultural Capital