Sam Wong

Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation (eBook, ePUB)

Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040791165
• Artikelnr.: 75563833

Autorenporträt

Sam Wong is lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Ch. 1: Building a 'Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework
Ch. 2: Ethnography Alternative Research Methodology
Ch. 3: Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
Ch. 4: Investing in Social Capital? Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange
Ch. 5: 'Getting the Social Relations Right'? Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics
Ch. 6: Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations
Ch. 7: Conclusions and Policy Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Annex 1
Annex 2: List of Tables
Index.