Contemporary Perspectives on Social Capital in Educational Co... - 9781641136396

Contemporary Perspectives on Social Capital in Educational ContextsAuthor(s): RoSusan D. Bartee, Phillis L. George\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641136396, 978-1641136396\nSynopsis\nThe currency of social capital serves as an important function given the capacity to generate external access (getting to) and internal accountability (getting through) for individuals and institutions alike. Pierre Bourdieu [tel] defines social capital as the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition or in other words, to membership in a group (p. 251). Social capital contains embedded resources as a tool for manifesting opportunities and options among individuals and groups. Inevitably, the aforementioned opportunities and options become reflective of the depth and breadth o.