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Anti-Capital : The Mesmerising Misnomers.

Av: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2013Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (337 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317180371
Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 306.3
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Innehåll:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: HUMAN CAPITAL -- 1 Background -- 2 Theory and Reality -- 3 Human Capital in the Corporation -- 4 Human Capital and Ownership: Corporate Transparency and Ownership Distribution -- PART II: SOCIAL CAPITAL -- 5 Social Capital as Civic Engagement -- 6 Social Capital as a Multi-Misnomer -- 7 Trust -- 8 Human Capital and Social Capital -- PART III: CULTURAL CAPITAL -- 9 Cultural Capital as Overlapping Social Capital and Human Capital -- 10 Cultural Capital as Labour Power -- 11 Cultural Capital and Class -- Conclusion: The Unholy Trinity -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sammanfattning: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: HUMAN CAPITAL -- 1 Background -- 2 Theory and Reality -- 3 Human Capital in the Corporation -- 4 Human Capital and Ownership: Corporate Transparency and Ownership Distribution -- PART II: SOCIAL CAPITAL -- 5 Social Capital as Civic Engagement -- 6 Social Capital as a Multi-Misnomer -- 7 Trust -- 8 Human Capital and Social Capital -- PART III: CULTURAL CAPITAL -- 9 Cultural Capital as Overlapping Social Capital and Human Capital -- 10 Cultural Capital as Labour Power -- 11 Cultural Capital and Class -- Conclusion: The Unholy Trinity -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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