Anti-capital : human, social and cultural : the mesmerising misnomers

"The notion of capital has enjoyed a rich career in the social sciences, its use across a range of subjects and in diverse academic and professional contexts having served to establish its conceptual status as 'given'. With particular attention to human and social capital - including cultural capital - this book traces the roots of this theoretical and conceptual trend to economics, revealing the proliferation of various forms of capital to be based upon an encroachment of the conceptual apparatus of economics into other social sciences. Offering an in-depth, critical analysis of the concepts of human and social capital, as well as their surrounding theories, Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural proposes an alternative theoretical framework, whilst better explaining the realities that they mask in economic terms. A rigorous exploration of the most popular forms of 'capital' in the contemporary social sciences, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, political and social theory, demography and economics."--Site web de l'éditeur The notion of capital has enjoyed a rich career in the social sciences, its use across a range of subjects and in diverse academic and professional contexts having served to establish its conceptual status as 'given'. With particular attention to human and social capital - including cultural capital - this book traces the roots of this theoretical and conceptual trend to economics, revealing the proliferation of various forms of capital to be based upon an encroachment of the conceptual apparatus of economics into other social sciences. Offering an in-depth, critical analysis of the concepts of human and social capital, as well as their surrounding theories, Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural proposes an alternative theoretical framework, whilst better explaining the realities that they mask in economic terms. A rigorous exploration of the most popular forms of 'capital' in the contemporary social sciences, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, political and social theory, demography and economics -- Provided by Publisher Cover 1 Contents 6 Introduction 8 PART I: HUMAN CAPITAL 10 1 Background 12 2 Theory and Reality 18 3 Human Capital in the Corporation 34 4 Human Capital and Ownership: Corporate Transparency and Ownership Distribution 58 PART II: SOCIAL CAPITAL 114 5 Social Capital as Civic Engagement 116 6 Social Capital as a Multi-Misnomer 152 7 Trust 166 8 Human Capital and Social Capital 176 PART III: CULTURAL CAPITAL 186 9 Cultural Capital as Overlapping Social Capital and Human Capital 188 10 Cultural Capital as Labour Power 202 11 Cultural Capital and Class 218 Conclusion: The Unholy Trinity 248 Bibliography 252 Index 328 The Mesmerising Misnomers