Paradoxes of Social Capital
Myriam Cherti
- Title
- Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
- Subtitle
- Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
- Author
- Sam Wong
- Price
- € 54,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789053560341
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 17 - 07 - 2007
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- ICAS Publications series
- Category
- Anthropology
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
Summary contents
- 6
Detailed contents
- 8
Acknowledgements
- 14
Preface
- 16
Ch. 1: Building a 'Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework
- 18
Ch. 2: Ethnography - Alternative Research Methodology
- 48
Ch. 3: Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
- 74
Ch. 4: Investing in Social Capital? - Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
- 98
Ch. 5: 'Getting the Social Relations Right'? - Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
- 124
Ch. 6: Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
- 148
Ch. 7:
Conclusions and Policy Implications - 174
Notes
- 196
Bibliography
- 198
Annex 1
- 210
Annex 2: List of Tables
- 214
Index
- 218
Reviews and Features
‘Sam Wong presents a rich, readable and thought provoking account of the differential patterning of social capital amongst Chinese migrants in Hong Kong.’ – Dr Frances Cleaver, Senior Lecturer, Bradford Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UK
‘Sam Wong’s work brings a sorely-needed fresh perspective to thinking about social capital – how it works and who it works for – that moves away from preoccupations solely with civic organisations to focus on everyday dynamic interactions between agency, structure and institution’ – Prof Rosalind Edwards, Director of the Families and Social Capital ESRC Research Group, London South Bank University.
Sam Wong
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
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.
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.
Author
Sam Wong
Sam Wong is lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
