Social capital: everything or nothing?
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- 28 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 33 (4) , 627
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyh252
Abstract
Social capital forms our point-counterpoint in this issue. The major contribution of Szreter and Woolcock's opening piece1—which deserves to become a citation classic—is to develop our understanding of the links between social capital and health outcomes through an improved theory of social capital. This improvement expands the idea of linking social capital—that is, the mechanisms that produce links between individuals operating at different levels of power or authority in a society. This form of social capital is distinguished from bonding social capital (of individuals with similar characteristics) and bridging social capital (of individuals with different characteristics, but usually similar status) previously defined by Putnam, who states he is agnostic on whether this distinction will be useful.2Keywords
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