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| Social capital, families and welfare policy | | Author(s) | Rosalind Edwards |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Society, vol 2, pt 4, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 305-348 |
| Keywords | Social interaction ; Participation ; Social contacts ; The Family ; Social welfare ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Social capital has become a key concept in Government policy-making and in academic circles. Broadly, it concerns norms and networks, the values people hold and the resources they can access, which both result in and are the result of collective and socially negotiated ties and relationships. Where people have a sense of identity, hold similar values, trust each other and reciprocally do things for each other, then this is felt to have an impact on the social, political and economic nature of the society in which we live. In the first of the four articles in this themed section on social capital, families and welfare policy, John Michael Robert and Fiona Devine examine the effects of social capital on the welfare state and its alternatives (e.g. volunteerism). The other three papers examine the relationships between social capital and: educational choices that lead to employment; ethnicity; and the state of intimate family relationships. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031022208 A |
| Classmark | TMA: TMB: TOA: SJ: TY: TM2 |
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