Communities and Societies

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Social Capital Primer | Bowling Alone

The central premise of social capital is that social networks have value.
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community - a review of the theory

Since the late nineteenth century, ‘the use of the term community has remained to some extent associated with the hope and the wish of reviving once more the closer, warmer, more harmonious type of bonds between people vaguely attributed to past ages’ (Elias 1974, quoted by Hoggett 1997: 5).