RTF 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Barry Wellman, Pierre Bourdieu, Robert D. Putnam

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Radio-Television-Film
• Course: RTF 307
• Professor: J.Mc Clearen

Document Summary

Economic money and material assets (houses, cars, etc. ) Social group memberships, relationships, networks of influence and support. The sum of resources a person or group has because of their connections with others. Connections that produce norms and reciprocity (and trustworthiness that arise from them) Complex & elaborately articulated doctrines such as islam, christianity, or confucianism. Social capital helps maintain social inequalities within society. A society of many virtuous but isolated individuals is not necessarily rich in social capital. A number of key sources of social capital are to be found in every community, albeit in differing amounts and at differing levels: Families, communities, firms, civil society, the public sector, ethnicity, gender. Allo(cid:449)s people (cid:449)ho share i(cid:374)terests to (cid:271)uild a (cid:862)trusted(cid:863) (cid:374)et(cid:449)ork/o(cid:374)li(cid:374)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity; pro(cid:448)ide a means to connect with friends (by allowing users to create a detailed profile page) and recommender systems linked to trust.