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Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation : everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / Sam Wong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ICAS publications series. Monographs ; ; 2.Publication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9048501059
  • 9789048501052
Other title:
  • Everyday lives of poor mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exploring 'unseen' social capital in community participation.DDC classification:
  • 338.951 22
LOC classification:
  • HC430.C3 W66 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Building a 'pro-poor' social capital framework -- Ethnography : alternative research methodology -- Historical and cultural contexts of mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong -- Investing in social capital? : considering the paradoxes of agency in social exchange -- 'Getting the social relations right'? : understanding institutional plurality and dynamics -- Rethinking authority and power in the structures of relations -- Conclusions and policy implications.
Summary: "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"--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building a 'pro-poor' social capital framework -- Ethnography : alternative research methodology -- Historical and cultural contexts of mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong -- Investing in social capital? : considering the paradoxes of agency in social exchange -- 'Getting the social relations right'? : understanding institutional plurality and dynamics -- Rethinking authority and power in the structures of relations -- Conclusions and policy implications.

"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"--Publisher's description.

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