新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Social capital and community development: Practitioner emptor

摘要：

Social capital may be a useful concept for practitioners, researchers and policy makers in bringing the missing social into economic and fiscal policy debates. But its uses should be approached cautiously as a construct of potential strategic value. It should not confuse all of the previous good work undertaken in the name of empowerment and community capacity. The discussion centers around 3 points: 1. Social capital is not a new discovery. 2. Social capital does not exist. 3. Community development has long been one strategy used by governments for contributing to what those old ideas are on about.