...of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition. Acknowledging that capital can take a variety of forms is indispensable to explain the structure and...

...words of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the people most closely associated with the term, "Social capital is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition — or in other words, to membership in a group which provides each of its members with the backing...

...role of ethnicity and gender in establishing class relationships. For Bourdieu, "Social capital is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition — or in other words, to membership in a group — which provides each of its members with the backing...

...structure. Bourdieu defines social capital in terms of class or networks of relationships, calling it "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition — or, in other words, to membership in a group — which provides each of its members with the backing...

...constitutes these other principal forms of capital and how does Bourdieu define them? Social capital "is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition — or in other words to membership in a group — which provides each of its members with the backing...

...defines social capital as 'the aggregate of the actual or potential resources that are linked to a possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition ... a 'credential' which entitles them to credit, in the various senses of the word.' Further on, Bourdieu...

...of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition' (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992:119). This definition and the proposed distinction between three styles...

...James Coleman's ( 1988) work on rational action. Social capital, Bourdieu (1986, 248-249) observes. "is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...which provides each of its members with the backing of the collectivity-owned capital, a 'credential' which entitles them to credit, in the various senses...

...that can later be transformed into economic capital. Social capital as defined by Pierre Bourdieu "is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition— or in other words, to membership in a group—which provides each of its members with the backing of...

...Student-Athletes?" Denver University Law Review 69:58, n. 7). 49. To define social capital, we note it is "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition." This is how Pierre Bourdieu defined the term in "The Forms of Capital," in John G....