[PEN-L:2704] Re: Duke University's literature department

["Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Michael,
    This quote from Senior looks like it might fit.  But
whose concept of "social capital" does it resemble if any,
Bourdieu's or Loury-Coleman-Putnam's?
     Also, I note that this is still not a use of the term
"social capital" even if it is getting at the concept maybe.
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:43:40 -0800 Michael Perelman
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
>
> >      1)  Bourdieu was the first to coin the term "social
> > capital."
>
> According to Senior, England was successful because "the intellectual and moral
> capital of Great Britain far exceeds all the material capital, not only in
> importance, but in productiveness" (Senior 1836, p. 134).
>
> By the way is David Yaffe, the same fellow that wrote marxists stuff a few
> decades ago?[
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> Michael Perelman
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