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" ... features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. "
Social Cohesion and Conflict Prevention in Asia: Managing Diversity Through ... - Page 204
edited by - 2001 - 493 pages
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Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban ...

Michael B. Katz - Social Science - 1997 - 192 pages
...elsewhere in the world, Putnam speculates on the unequal American urban racial and class distribution of the "features of social organization, such as networks,...coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit." Measured accurately, these "may be as great as inequalities in financial and human capital, and no...
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How Many People Can the Earth Support?

Joel E. Cohen - Political Science - 1996 - 548 pages
...Social and political institutions that can reconcile efficiency with equality are particular examples of "features of social organization, such as networks,...facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. "4 In an extended field study of regional governments in Italy, the Harvard political scientist Robert...
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Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the Twenty-first ...

David Blane, Eric Brunner, Richard G. Wilkinson - Demography - 1996 - 346 pages
...stable societies function on a day-to-day basis. Social capital has been formally defined as those 'features of social organization, such as networks,...and cooperation for mutual benefit* (Putnam 1993: 35-36). From the standpoint of population health, social capital is an attractive concept because it...
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Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences

Dianne E. Rocheleau, Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter, Esther Wangari - Ecofeminism - 1996 - 350 pages
...capital; natural resource capital; and social capital (Flora et al. 1995). Social capital refers to "features of social organization, such as networks,...and cooperation for mutual benefit" (Putnam 1993: 35-6). Social capital has a variety of configurations, each of which has different implications for...
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Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place

William Vitek, Wes Jackson - Science - 1996 - 308 pages
...trust are the components of community social capital. Putnam (1993b, 35-36) describes social capital as "features of social organization, such as networks,...facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. Social capital enhances the benefits of investment in physical and human capital." (Environmental capital...
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Case Studies in War-to-peace Transition: The Demobilization and ...

Nat J. Colletta, Markus Kostner, Ingo Wiederhofer - History - 1996 - 378 pages
...that determines the eventual outcome. A community's social capital is reflected in "features of its social organization, such as networks, norms, and...facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit" (Putman 1993, p. 35). A community whose social organization is strong is, other things being equal,...
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Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences

Dianne E. Rocheleau, Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter, Esther Wangari - Nature - 1996 - 356 pages
...namral resource capital; and social capital (Flora el al. 1995). Social capital refers to "feamres of social organization, such as networks, norms, and...trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mumal benefit" (Pumam 1993: 35-6). Social capital has a variety of configurations, each of which has...
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Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results

David A. Kindig - Business & Economics - 1997 - 220 pages
...and human capital, as an economic factor that enhances individual productivity. The term refers to features of social organization such as networks,...facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. While the work of Putnam and his colleagues does not focus on health per se, they note that there have...
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The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy

James S. Fishkin - Political Science - 1997 - 270 pages
...while the low civic regions, concentrated in the south, lack social capital. By social capital he means "features of social organization, such as networks,...facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit."13 Social capital is a "public good" — it is a characteristic of the community, and it is...
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Rural Finance for Food Security for the Poor: Implications for Research and ...

Manfred Zeller, Gertrud Schrieder, Joachim von Braun, Franz Heidhues - Technology & Engineering - 1997 - 146 pages
...means for the poor to stabilize their consumption in the event of shocks. Social capital is defined as features of social organization, such as networks,...facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefits (Putnam 1993, 35). However, community-based social security networks are constrained in their...
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