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The Kenosha Social Capital Study

Author : Jo Anne Schneider
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530071074
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Kenosha Social Capital Study written by Jo Anne Schneider and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kenosha Social Capital Study explores how people and communities at the social and economic margins of a small city survive and thrive after welfare reform and in a changing economy. Kenosha Wisconsin is an internationally recognized model for effectively revitalizing its economy after major employers left, supporting unemployed families, and creating a workforce development system that is sensitive to the needs of both government and families using the system. Kenosha was one of the models for U.S. 1996 welfare reform, but the county created a public/private partnership that provided wrap around supports beyond most current government programs. Kenosha is also the small city that chose "not to be like Flint, Michigan," (to quote a Kenosha business leader) the impoverished city made famous by Michael Moore's documentary Roger and Me, on what happens to a community after their major employer leaves. Instead, Kenosha worked with its banks to make sure people did not lose their homes, encouraged businesses to move to Kenosha and took other measures to create a mixed economy, and encouraged its faith communities and civic organizations to create a safety net of community based nonprofits that had not existed before its major unionized employers left. As a small city that is majority white, Kenosha is not only a model for communities in transition, but similar to much of the suburban and rural U.S. today. As such, it also has much to teach us about diversity outside of large cities. This report shares findings from a study commissioned by Kenosha county government and its nonprofits and faith communities to understand the ways that families, community based nonprofits, and churches in the African American and Hispanic/Latino community respond to community members in need. It also analyzes the welfare to work system and business climate in Kenosha as a whole, comparing how African American and Hispanic/Latino families experience with government systems differs from that of white families. The study uses social capital - trust based connections that lead to resources, to understand why some families and organizations succeed in meeting their goals while others fail. Initially published in 2001, the Kenosha Social Capital Study was featured in an interview by Cokie Roberts on National Public Radio and has been used by community planners, government, social service agencies, and faith community leaders as a model for creating support systems for families. It has also been used as a case study in urban studies, public administration, nonprofit studies, business, social work, urban ministry, and social science and political science classes. This new edition makes it available in both hard copy and kindle for the first time.Do you want to involve community residents in understanding and solving the problems they face? If so, you've come to the right place. This report shows you, step-by-step, what to do and why. The lessons you'll learn will help you improve any community by working with those people most affected. Dr. Richard HoeferDirector and Lead Trainer,Nonprofit Management Capacity BuilderRoy E. Dulak Professor for Community Practice ResearchSchool of Social Work, University of Texas at ArlingtonJo Anne Schneider's Kenosha studies should be required reading for anyone interested in community nonprofits. In a world of survey research snapshots and organizational selfies, Dr. Schneider has painted the kind of detailed and convincing community landscape that can only be done by detailed and close observation and careful analysis. Roger Lohmann, Emeritus Professor, West Virginia University

The Kenosha Social Capital Study

Author : Jo Anne Schneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Kenosha Social Capital Study written by Jo Anne Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Capital and Welfare Reform

Author : Jo Anne Schneider
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231126514
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Welfare Reform written by Jo Anne Schneider and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-22 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and defeat in Vietnam led to an unraveling of the national consensus. During the decade, ideas about the United States, how it should be governed, and how its economy should be managed changed dramatically. Berkowitz argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced by a more skeptical attitude about government's ability to positively affect society. From Woody Allen to Watergate, from the decline of the steel industry to the rise of Bill Gates, and from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers, Berkowitz captures the history, tone, and spirit of the seventies. He explores the decade's major political events and movements, including the rise and fall of détente, congressional reform, changes in healthcare policies, and the hostage crisis in Iran. The seventies also gave birth to several social movements and the "rights revolution," in which women, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities all successfully fought for greater legal and social recognition. At the same time, reaction to these social movements as well as the issue of abortion introduced a new facet into American political life-the rise of powerful, politically conservative religious organizations and activists. Berkowitz also considers important shifts in American popular culture, recounting the creative renaissance in American film as well as the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster. He discusses how television programs such as All in the Family and Charlie's Angels offered Americans both a reflection of and an escape from the problems gripping the country.

Social Capital and Welfare Reform

Author : Jo Anne Schneider
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023150117X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Welfare Reform written by Jo Anne Schneider and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Jo Anne Schneider considers the reasons behind the limited success of most welfare reform initiatives and offers evidence-based recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of welfare policy. Schneider draws on her rich and nuanced ethnographic studies of Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Kenosha, Wisconsin to clarify the role of social capital for both individuals and institutions. She shows that the social relationships and patterns of trust that enable people to gain access to resources like government services, organization funding, and jobs are crucial in helping families achieve their goals. Schneider examines the complex ways in which social capital functions in conjunction with economic, human, and cultural capital, and explores social capital dynamics among government, nonprofits, and congregations that together provide the welfare support system. Social Capital and Welfare Reform is compulsory reading for researchers and students in social work, sociology, anthropology, public policy, education, community psychology, social psychiatry, and non-profit and public administration as well as policy makers interested in welfare reform, poverty, and nonprofits.

Social Capital and Health

Author : Ichiro Kawachi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387713107
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Health written by Ichiro Kawachi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Ichiro Kawachi, a widely respected leader in the field, and 21 contributors (including physicians, economists, and public health experts) discuss the theoretical origins of social capital, the strengths and limitations of current methodologies of measuring it, and salient examples of social capital concepts informing public health practice. Among the highlights: Measurement methods: survey, sociometric, ethnographic, experimental The relationship between social capital and physical health and health behaviors: smoking, substance abuse, physical activity, sexual activity Social capital and mental health: early findings Social capital and the aging community Social capital and disaster preparedness Social Capital and Health is certain to inspire a new generation of research on this topic, and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in public health, health behavior, and social epidemiology.

Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations

Author : Ram A. Cnaan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387757292
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations written by Ram A. Cnaan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the way associations and the organization of local social life are intertwined is one of the oldest approaches to community study, the way citizens and residents come together informally to act and solve problems has rarely been a primary focus. Associations are central to important and developing areas of social theory and social action. This handbook takes voluntary associations as the starting point for making sense of communities. It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this important aspect of community life.

Three Studies of Social Capital and Population Health

Author : Eunice Yang Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Three Studies of Social Capital and Population Health written by Eunice Yang Park and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three studies of social capital and its association with population health in the United States. It contributes to important ongoing discussions in the fields of social capital and population health. Chapter 1 outlines an overview of the dissertation. Chapter 2 reviews background and literature.The first study (Chapter 3) aims to establish the relationship between cognitive social capital, measured by one's sense of community, and mental health. Findings using the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) data collected between 2014 and 2016 indicate that a positive sense of community is associated with a reduced risk of experiencing depression, anxiety, and stress. The second study (Chapter 4) aims to extend the findings from the first study (positive association between one's sense of community and mental health) to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically from 2020 to 2021. It also aims to test whether a different cognitive social capital measure (perceived social support) is associated with mental health during the pandemic. There are two main findings. First, the association between one's sense of community and mental health symptoms change during the COVID-19 pandemic, from a negative association in spring 2020 to a positive association in summer 2021. Second, the association between one's perceived social support and mental health symptoms are consistent across two time points, winter 2021 and summer 2021, although the association weakens over time. The third study (Chapter 5) aims to reconsider how social capital is conceptualized and measured in a social determinants of health model in two main parts: a critical review and an evaluation. In the critical review, various social capital measures that are commonly used in population health research are reviewed. In evaluating the social capital construct in the County Health Rankings Model, I compare two measures and investigate the consequences of the two different measures on actions inspired. Findings suggest that choosing social capital measures is a complicated process and therefore requires multiple considerations such as construct validity, universality, and reliability. In Conclusion (Chapter 6), I present a summary of results, theoretical and empirical limitations that remain, and directions for future.

Women, Work, and Poverty

Author : Heidi I. Hartmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135803234
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Women, Work, and Poverty written by Heidi I. Hartmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women’s poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage, divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules, disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance. Women, Work, and Poverty illuminates the changes in the causes of women’s poverty following welfare reform in the United States, using up-to-date research that’s both qualitative and quantitative. Taking racial and ethnic diversity into account, the book’s contributors examine new findings on the feminization of poverty, the role of children and the lack of child care as an obstacle to employment, labor market policies that can reduce poverty and improve gender wage equality, sex and race segregation in the labor market, and the low quality of jobs available to low income women. Women, Work, and Poverty examines: marriage, motherhood, and work pay equity and living wage reforms community resources welfare status and child care acquiring higher education advancing women of color income security repaying debt after divorce gender differences in spendable income women’s job loss Women, Work, and Poverty is an invaluable aid for academics working in social work, social policy, women’s studies, economics, sociology, and political science, and for policy researchers, anti-poverty activists, and women’s leaders.

Saving Souls, Serving Society

Author : Heidi Rolland Unruh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198036574
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Saving Souls, Serving Society written by Heidi Rolland Unruh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen unprecedented attention to faith-based institutions as agents of social change, spurred in part by cuts in public funding for social services and accompanied by controversy about the separation of church and state. The debate over faith-based initiatives has highlighted a small but growing segment of churches committed to both saving souls and serving society. What distinguishes faith-based from secular activism? How do religious organizations express their religious identity in the context of social services? How do faith-based service providers interpret the connection between spiritual methodologies and socioeconomic outcomes? How does faith motivate and give meaning to social ministry? Drawing on case studies of fifteen Philadelphia-area Protestant churches with active outreach, Saving Souls, Serving Society seeks to answer these and other pressing questions surrounding the religious dynamics of social ministry. While church-based programs often look similar to secular ones in terms of goods or services rendered, they may show significant differences in terms of motivations, desired outcomes, and interpretations of meaning. Church-based programs also differ from one another in terms of how they relate evangelism to their social outreach agenda. Heidi Rolland Unruh and Ronald J. Sider explore how churches navigate the tension between their spiritual mission and the constraints on evangelism in the context of social services. The authors examine the potential contribution of religious dynamics to social outcomes as well as the relationship between mission orientations and social capital. Unruh and Sider introduce a new vocabulary for describing the religious components and spiritual meanings embedded in social action, and provide a typology of faith-based organizations and programs. Their analysis yields a framework for Protestant mission orientations that makes room for the diverse ways that churches interrelate spiritual witness and social compassion. Based on their observations, the authors offer a constructive approach to church-state partnerships and provide a far more objective understanding of faith-based social services than previously available.

Taking Faith Seriously

Author : Mary Jo. Bane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020480
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Taking Faith Seriously written by Mary Jo. Bane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether simply uneasy or downright hostile, the relation between religion and liberal democracy in this country has long been vexed and complex--and crucial to what America is and aspires to be. Amid increasingly contentious exchanges over fundamentalism, abortion rights, secularism, and pluralism, this book reminds us of the critical role that religion plays in the health and well-being of a democracy.

The Journal of Markets & Morality

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Markets & Morality written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Capital and Poor Communities

Author : Susan Saegert
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610444825
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Poor Communities written by Susan Saegert and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neighborhood support groups have always played a key role in helping the poor survive, but combating poverty requires more than simply meeting the needs of day-to-day subsistence. Social Capital and Poor Communities shows the significant achievements that can be made through collective strategies, which empower the poor to become active partners in revitalizing their neighborhoods. Trust and cooperation among residents and local organizations such as churches, small businesses, and unions form the basis of social capital, which provides access to resources that would otherwise be out of reach to poor families. Social Capital and Poor Communities examines civic initiatives that have built affordable housing, fostered small businesses, promoted neighborhood safety, and increased political participation. At the core of each initiative lie local institutions—church congregations, parent-teacher groups, tenant associations, and community improvement alliances. The contributors explore how such groups build networks of leaders and followers and how the social power they cultivate can be successfully transferred from smaller goals to broader political advocacy. For example, community-based groups often become platforms for leaders hoping to run for local office. Church-based groups and interfaith organizations can lobby for affordable housing, job training programs, and school improvement. Social Capital and Poor Communities convincingly demonstrates why building social capital is so important in enabling the poor to seek greater access to financial resources and public services. As the contributors make clear, this task is neither automatic nor easy. The book's frank discussions of both successes and failures illustrate the pitfalls—conflicts of interest, resistance from power elites, and racial exclusion—that can threaten even the most promising initiatives. The impressive evidence in this volume offers valuable insights into how goal formation, leadership, and cooperation can be effectively cultivated, resulting in a remarkable force for change and a rich public life even for those communities mired in seemingly hopeless poverty. A Volume in the Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building

Community-based Organizations

Author : Robert Mark Silverman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814331576
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Community-based Organizations written by Robert Mark Silverman and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society studies the close relationship that social capital shares with local context, social organization, and institutional structure. The book's timely analysis illuminates the institutional barriers currently affecting the mobilization of social capital and establishes a foundation for social and political reform in the future. All components of capital formation--including human, financial, and cultural capital--are identified and considered as they relate to the community development process, as well as how social capital relates to race, class, gender, and religion in urban society. Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society offers vital extensions to existing literature on social capital and allows the reader to consider this topic from multiple perspectives through its broad spectrum of interdisciplinary essays by sociologists, political scientists, and urban planners. The essays discuss important steps in the mobilization of social capital, as well as its role in microfinance programs, community development corporations, homeowners associations, religious institutions, and neighborhood associations. Individual chapters present an array of theoretical arguments, empirical analysis, and applied case studies that are of interest to academics, practitioners, and activists in the community development field.

Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision

Author : Robert Wineburg
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038977608
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Welfare and Social Service Provision written by Robert Wineburg and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Welfare, and Social Service Provision: Common Ground delves deeply into the partnerships forged between religious communities, government agencies and nonprofits to deliver social services to the needy. These pages offer a considered examination of how local faith entities have served those in their midst, and how the provision of those services has been impacted by evolving social policies. This foundational volume brings together the work of more than two dozen leading researchers, each providing long overdue scholarly inquiry into religiously affiliated helping and the many possibilities that it holds for effective cooperation.

Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Dimitrina Dimova Mihailova
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Capital in Central and Eastern Europe written by Dimitrina Dimova Mihailova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of socialist rule encouraged many Western analysts and government advisors to see the east-European region as a veritable tabula rasa just waiting for civil society and market democracy. Millions of dollars and euros were poured into democrazation projects, with the aim of building social capital.

Contemporary Perspectives on Social Capital in Educational Contexts

Author : RoSusan D. Bartee
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641136405
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Social Capital in Educational Contexts written by RoSusan D. Bartee and published by IAP. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The currency of social capital serves as an important function given the capacity to generate external access (getting to) and internal accountability (getting through) for individuals and institutions alike. Pierre Bourdieu (1986) defines social capital as “the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition or in other words, to membership in a group” (p. 251). Social capital contains embedded resources as a tool for manifesting opportunities and options among individuals and groups. Inevitably, the aforementioned opportunities and options become reflective of the depth and breadth of access and accountability experienced by the individual and institution. As educational stakeholders, we must consistently challenge ourselves with the question, “How do K-12 schools and colleges and universities accomplish shared, egalitarian goals of achieving access and accountability?” Such goals become fundamental toward ensuring students matriculating through K-12 and higher education, irrespective of background, are provided the caliber of education and schooling experience to prepare them for economic mobility and social stability. To that end, the volume, Contemporary Perspectives on Social Capital in Educational Contexts (2019), as part of the book series, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts, offers a unique opportunity to explore social capital as a currency conduit for creating external access and internal accountability for K-12 and higher education. The commonalities of social capital emerging within the 12 chapters of the volume include the following: 1) Social Capital as Human Connectedness; 2) Social Capital as Strategic Advocacy; 3) Social Capital as Intentional Engagement; and 4) Social Capital as Culturally-Responsive Leadership. Thus, it becomes important for institutions of education (i.e. secondary, postsecondary, continuing) and individuals to assume efforts with intentionality and deliberateness to promote access and accountability.

The Economics of Social Capital and Health

Author : Richard M. Scheffler
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9789814293396
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Social Capital and Health written by Richard M. Scheffler and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines the field of social capital and health. Over the last two decades, there has been a recognition of the importance of social capital (usually defined as ties in the community, attachment to the community, and participation in community activities) and its impact on the health of those in that community. The purpose of this book is to show the growth in the field of social capital and health and to expose readers to a variety of approaches in order to think about and model the question of how health can be improved by investments in community social capital as well as by individual social capital. An outstanding set of papers will be presented by authors from the United States, as well as from Europe and Asia. These papers are cutting-edge and explore the mechanisms through which social capital affects health. The papers also present the most recent empirical work and discuss the policy implications of their findings. Without a doubt, this will be a landmark book which will make the study of social capital and its impact on health a major area of research in the coming decade.