Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life (Hardcover)

1. Introduction2. Social capital: the missing link?3. Social capital in a multicultural society: the case of Canada4. The different faces of social capital in NSW Australia5. Studying civic culture ethnographically and what it tells us about social capital: communities in the West of Ireland6. Traditional communities, caste and democracy: the Indian mystery7. Religion and volunteering in the Netherlands8. Volunteering and social capital: how trust and religion shape civic participation in the United States9. 'Getting to trust': an analysis of the importance of institutions, families, personal experiences and group membership10. Membership and democracy11. The Everyday Maker: building political rather than social capital12. 'Not for our kind of people': the sour-grapes phenomenon as a casual mechanism for political passivity13. The social in social capital