1st Edition
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
By Sam Wong
Copyright 2007
220 Pages
by
Routledge
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics and structural complexity in social capital building. Using ethnographic and participatory methods,... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface, Ch. 1: Building a 'Pro-Poor' Social Capital Framework, Ch. 2: Ethnography Alternative Research Methodology, Ch. 3: Historical and Cultural Contexts of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong, Ch. 4: Investing in Social Capital? Considering the Paradoxes of Agency in Social Exchange, Ch. 5: 'Getting the Social Relations Right'? Understanding Institutional Plurality and Dynamics, Ch. 6: Rethinking Authority and Power in the Structures of Relations, Ch. 7: Conclusions and Policy Implications, Notes, Bibliography, Annex 1, Annex 2: List of Tables, Index.
Biography
Sam Wong is lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
