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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">What is social capital? A study of interaction in a rural community</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Falk, Ian</span> and <span class="person_name">Kilpatrick, Sue</span> (2000) <xhtml:em>What is social capital? A study of interaction in a rural community.</xhtml:em> Sociologia Ruralis, 40 (1). pp. 87-110. ISSN 0038-0199</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_902' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/896/1/Sociologia_Ruralis_paper.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_902' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_902"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/896/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/896/1/Sociologia_Ruralis_paper.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF (Author version)</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />123Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9523.00133">http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9523.00133</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">What is social capital? In answering this question, the paper reports on new research which differentiates between social interaction processes and social capital as the product of those processes. Following a review of literature, structured as a social theory against which social capital might be understood, the paper then describes a study of a rural community, and reports on two analyses of data which contribute to answering the question, 'What is the nature of the interactive productivity between the local networks in a community?' The paper concludes that social capital, for which a new definition is forwarded, can only 'exist' if it is somehow able to be produced. This is the chief assumption of the paper. Social capital is defined as an accumulation of the knowledge and identity resources drawn on by communities-of-common-purpose. If social capital originates in micro interactions which are in turn embedded in a meso and macro social order, then these processes and connections should be observable. This paper makes an initial contribution to the establishment of such micro, mesa and macro links.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111%2F1467-9523.00133</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Social capital, Interaction, Rural communities</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/389999.html">380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > 389900 Other Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > 389999 Other Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/370100.html">370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">896</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Associate Professor SI Kilpatrick</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">11 Apr 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=896;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=896">item control page</a></p>
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