Social Capital, Social Identities

From Ownership to Belonging

Dieter Thomä, Christoph Henning, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Dieter Thomä, Christoph Henning, Hans Bernhard Schmid

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9783110292800
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110381825
• Topic: Filosofia
• Subtopic: Filosofia etica e morale

Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations. Whereas economists pride themselves on reaching out to social theory at-large, sociologists criticize the economization of the social fabric. The concept of social capital serves as a touchstone for the study of the role of the economy in modern societies. It serves as a breach for expanding the reach of economic categories, yet it also yields the opportunity for questioning and transforming economic premises in the light of social theory and philosophy. Exploring the concept of social capital in the context of related terms like embeddedness, trust, sociability, and cooperation is particularly instructive. This collection of papers from various disciplines (philosophy, sociology, economics, religious studies) combines conceptual studies and empirical findings. It is a plea for re-embedding economic thought in a broader theoretical framework. By exploring the varieties of social identities implied in the theories of social capital, the authors argue for a social (or more sociable) conception of man.

Index of Subjects

ambivalence 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7

appropriation 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7

associations 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10, 11 , 12

attachment 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10–11

behavioral economics 1

belonging 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6–7, 8– 9, 10–11, 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

benevolence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

bridging/bonding 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

charities 1, 2

Christian, Christianity 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7

civil religion 1, 2–3

civil society 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

common good 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

commons 1, 2, 3

common sense 1

community 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14–15, 16, 17, 18–19, 20, 21, 22–23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

competition 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6

concern 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8–9, 10, 11, 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

cooperation 1–2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11, 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 17

crime 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

crisis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

crowding-out 1, 2

cultural capital 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

culture 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

dark (side) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

economic capital, financial capital 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8

empathy 1, 2, 3, 4

endowments 1, 2

equality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

equilibrium 1, 2–3, 4

evil 1, 2–3

exclusion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

exploitation 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8

family 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12–13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

feelings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

fellow-feeling 1, 2

firm 1, 2, 3, 4

friendship 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

games, game theory 1, 2, 3, 4

globalization, globlization 1, 2, 3

government 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

group loyalty 1

guilt 1, 2

habitus 1, 2, 3

happiness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

homo economicus 1

honor respect 1, 2–3

human capital 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

identification 1, 2, 3

identity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

impairment of the will 1

individualism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

inequality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–12, 13–14, 15–16, 17, 18

institutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12–13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

integration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–12

intentionalistic approach 1, 2

interests 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Islam 1, 2–3

law 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14–15, 16, 17, 18

Mafia 1, 2

market 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16–17, 18, 19–20, 21–22, 23

marriage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6

membership 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

middle class 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6

mobility 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7, 8

modernization 1, 2, 3, 4

money 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

neighborhood 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

nepotism 1

networks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14–15, 16– 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

norms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

nostalgia 1–2, 3, 4, 5

oikeiosis 1–2

paternalism 1, 2, 3, 4

person 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12–13, 14, 15, 16, 17–18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23–24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

place 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8–9, 10– 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17–18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28–29, 30, 31, 32

pluralism 1, 2, 3, 4

power 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Varieties of Belonging: BetweenAppropriation and Familiarization
• Cultural Capital and Elective Belonging:A British Case Study
• Structures of Belonging, Types of SocialCapital, and Modes of Trust
• Trust and Cooperation among EconomicAgents
• Respect, Concern, and Membership
• Social Capital and Self-Alienation - An Augustinian Look at the Dark Heart of Community
• Cement of Society? Why Civil Religion isunfit to create Social Bonds
• The Social Capital of ReligiousCommunities in the Age of Globalization
• Social Capital and Power: A SociologicalPoint of View - The Two Faces of Social Capital
• Modernity, Welfare State, and Inequality - Individual and Societal Preconditions of Social Capital
• Social Capital, Public Goods,or the Common Good? - Equality as a Hidden Agenda in Current Debates
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Persons
• Index of Subjects