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Write short note on Kinship and Social Capital.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Systems of Kinship

Social capital is the set of resources (trust, information, help, obligation) that people draw from their networks of relationships. Pierre Bourdieu ("The Forms of Capital", 1986) treated it as a class resource that can be converted into economic and cultural capital. James S. Coleman ("Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital", 1988) located it…

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  • How kinship generates social capital
  • Bonding versus bridging
  • The dark side
  • Contemporary shifts
  • Conclusion

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