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POLICY ARENA: ‘Missing link’ or analytically missing?: The concept of social capital. Edited by John Harriss. An introductory bibliographic essay
John Harriss,Paolo de Renzio +1 more
TL;DR: A substantial review of the ways in which the concept of social capital has been used in the recent theoretical and policy literatures can be found in this paper, where it is concluded that policy arguments which pose civil society against the state, or which rest on the view that rich endowment in social capital is a precondition for good government, are almost certainly misconceived.
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Does social cohesion modify the association between area income deprivation and mental health? A multilevel analysis
David Lawrence Fone,Frank David John Dunstan,Keith Lloyd,Gareth Williams,John Watkins,Stephen Royston Palmer +5 more
TL;DR: Poor mental health was significantly associated with area-level income deprivation and low social cohesion after adjusting for individual risk factors and further research on the impact of the social environment on mental health should investigate causal pathways in a longitudinal study.
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Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities and Distributed Communities of Practice.
TL;DR: Key interdisciplinary research areas in social capital are surveyed and how the notions of social capital and trust can be extended to virtual communities, including virtual learning communities and distributed communities of practice are explored.
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Deliberative Democracy and Authority
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for an inherently democratic conception of authority, in large part by examining and rejecting the view that authority involves a surrender of judgment by those subject to authority.
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Social Capital, Television, and the "Mean World": Trust, Optimism, and Civic Participation*
TL;DR: This paper showed that it is optimism for the future that makes people more trusting in the estimation of a simultaneous equation model, not just the content of the shows we watch, but also the amount of time consumed by viewing.