单词 | social capital |
释义 | > as lemmassocial capital social capital n. the interpersonal networks and common civic values which influence the infrastructure and economy of a particular society; the nature, extent, or value of these. ΚΠ 1835 Western Messenger Aug. 104 [They] would gladly engraft on an earnest, healthy state of society, the follies and the vices of a luxurious and decaying monarchy. Although none of the social capital is in such hands or heads. 1886 Science 24 Sept. 283/1 A great city is a corporation, a body politic. This complex organization..suffers waste which is dead loss of social capital and resource. 1961 J. M. Jacobs Death & Life of Great Amer. Cities 138 These networks are a city's irreplaceable social capital. 1991 European Sociol. Rev. 7 197/1 This holds both for getting their offspring through the system by meritocratic means, as well as making use of the family's total social capital through alternative channels. 2001 J. G. Stein Cult of Efficiency i. 14 Robert Putnam..has argued that civic engagement—citizens coming together to participate in public space on public issues—is a precondition for the creation of ‘social capital’. < as lemmas |
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