Social capital: A useful concept for social work?

Australian Social Work

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-238

  Healy, Karen ^a   Hampshire, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b North Gold Coast Early Years Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

social capital; social policy; social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937385014     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03124070208410978     Document Type: Article

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