...Pierre Bourdieu, hinges on the basics of social-class reproduction. Bourdieu defines social capital as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition."" With this definition, Bourdieu relates the concept of social capital to that of cultural...

...reproduction of social inequality.3 Bourdieu in particular should be mentioned. He defined social capital as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition" (Bourdieu 1985, 248).4 Coleman (1988) defines social capital in broader terms as "a...

...the idea of capital drawn from economics. Bourdieu (1986, p. 248) initially defined social capital as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition — or in other words to membership of a group." In simpler terms, Portes (1998, p....

...concept decades ago in his work with educational systems in Europe. He defined the term more specifically as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition" (p. 248). Bourdieu was interested in the way that social status and power interact...

...individuals and families who make up a social unit'. Jacobs (1961:138) Bourdieu(1986 :248) 'networks...'. 'the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...to possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalised relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition' (1986:243) 'made up of social...

...of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition" (p. 119). Social capital is different from human capital, which represents the individual attributes...

...called resources and what others call social capital. Social capital is defined by Pierre Bourdieu as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition." 47 The volunteers, who understood how important their own social capital was in their own lives, saw...

...another form of capital that providers in the sample used to resist their demonization. Social capital is the "aggregate of the actual or potential resources...relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition" (Bourdieu, 1994, p. 248). Less eloquently stated, social capital is all about how many friends, supporters...

...group member can profit — socially as well as economically. In this way, social capital becomes: 65 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...

...a society's integration. In the original treatment of the concept, Bourdieu defined social capital as "the aggregate of the actual or potential resources...institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition" (Bourdieu 1986, 248). Bourdieu viewed social networks as socially constructed through...