Social Capital: Promise and Pitfalls of its Role in Development

Journal of Latin American Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 529-547

  Portes, Alejandro ^a   Landolt, Patricia ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85010174898     PISSN: 0022216X     EISSN: 1469767X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00005836     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. See Alejandro Portes, Carlos Dore-Cabral and Patricia Landolt, The Urban Caribbean “ Transition to the New Global Economy (Baltimore, 1997) and Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy within Reason “ Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (Pennsylvania, 1994)
2. Carlos Filgueira, Estado y sociedad civil: Polaticas de ajuste estructural y estabilización en América Latina:, paper presented at the Conference on Responses of Civil Society to Neo-Liberal Adjustment, University of Texas at Austin, April 1996. See also Alvaro Diaz, Chile “‘Hacia el pos-neoliberalismo?’ Paper presented at the Conference on Responses of Civil Society to Neo-Liberal Adjustment, University of Texas at Austin, April 1996; Manuel Castells and Roberto Laserna. The New Dependency” Technological Change and Socio-economic Restructuring in Latin America:, Sociological Forum, vol. 4 (1989), pp. 535-60.
3. Alvaro Diaz, Chile “ ‘Hacia el pos-neoliberalismo?’ Manuel Castells and Alejandro Portes, World Underneath” The Origins, Dynamics, and Effects of the Informal Economy’, in A. Portes, M. Castells and L. A. Benton (eds.), The Informal Economy” Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries, (Baltimore, 1989) pp. 11-37.
4. Robert D. Putnam, The Prosperous Community” Social Capital and Public Life ‘, The American Prospect, vol. 13 (1993), pp. 35-42; also, by the same author, Bowling Alone” America's Declining Social Capital ‘, Journal of Democracy, vol. 6 (1995), pp. 65-78.
5. This section is based on Alejandro Portes, The Two Meanings of Social Capital ‘, Sociological Forum (Forthcoming).
6. Pierre Bourdieu, Les Trois États du Capital Culturel ‘, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, vol. 31 (1979), pp. 3-6 and Pierre Bourdieu, Le Capital Social “ Notes Provisoires ‘, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, vol. 31 (1980), pp. 2-3.
7. James S. Coleman, Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital ‘, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 94, (1988), pp. 95-121; also James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory (Cambridge, 1990)
8. Pierre Bourdieu, Le Capital Social “ Notes Provisoires ‘, pp. 2-3.
9. James S. Coleman, The Rational Reconstruction of Society (1992 Presidential Address)’, American Sociological Review, vol. 58 (1993), pp. 1-15.
10. This section is partially based on Alejandro Portes, Social Capital “ Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology’, Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 24 (1998), pp. 1-24, and Alejandro Portes and Patricia Landolt, The Downside of Social Capital ‘, The American Prospect, vol. 26 (1996), pp. 18-22.
11. Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner, Embeddedness and Immigration” Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action’, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 98 (1993), pp. 1320-50.
12. Roger Waldinger, The ‘Other Side'’ of Embeddedness” A Case Study of the Interplay between Economy and Ethnicity ‘, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 18 (1995), pp. 555-80.
13. H. Geertz, ‘Indonesian Cultures and Communities'’, in R. McVey (ed.), Indonesia, (New Haven, 1963), pp. 24-96
14. Alejandro Portes and Patricia Landolt, The Downside of Social Capital ‘.
15. Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner, Embeddedness and Immigration’.
16. This is also the mechanism undergirding rotating credit association where members get together periodically to contribute money to a common pool that is given to each in turn. In the absence of written contractual obligations, the only reason to expect additional contributions from those who have already received their pool is the threat of ostracism and status loss for shirkers. See Ivan Light, Immigrant and Ethnic Enterprise in North America’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 7 (1984), pp. 195-216.
17. This section is partially based on Alejandro Portes, The Two Meanings of Social Capital ‘.
18. See Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia, the Business of Private Protection (Cambridge, MA, 1993)
19. Vittorio Capecchi, The Informal Economy and the Development of Flexible Specialization ‘, in A. Portes et al. (eds.), The Informal Economy, pp. 189-215. See also David Kyle, The Transnational Peasant” The Social Structures of Economic Migration from the Ecuadoran Andes’, unpubl. PhD. Diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1995.
20. Alejandro Portes et al., The Urban Caribbean.
21. Jose Itzigsohn, The State, the Informal Economy, and the Reproduction of the Labor Force’, unpubl. PhD. Diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1994.
22. Vittorio Capecchi, The Informal Economy and the Development of Flexible Specialization ‘.
23. Juan Pablo Pérez-Sáinz, Guatemala” Two Faces of the Metropolitan Area’, in Alejandro Portes et al. (eds.), The Urban Caribbean.
24. Derek Gordon, Patricia Anderson and Don Robotham, Jamaica” Urbanization during the Years of the Crisis ‘, in Alejandro Portes et al. (eds.), The Urban Caribbean.
25. Hernando De Soto, The Other Path, trans. June Abbot (New York, 1989).
26. Linda Basch et al., Nations Unbound” Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States (Langhorne, PA, 1994). See also Michael P. Smith and Luis E. Guarnizo, Transnationalism from Below (New Brunswick, NJ, 1998).
27. Alejandro Portes, Luis E. Guarnizo and Patricia Landolt, The Study of Transnationalism” Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field ‘, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 22 (1999), pp. 217-37.
28. Aristide Zolberg, Astri Suhrke and Sergio Aguayo, Escape From Violence “ Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World (New York, 1989).
29. Patricia Landolt, Lilian Autler and Sonia Baires, From Hermano Lejano to Hermano Mayor” The Dialectics of Salvadoran Transnationalism,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol, 22, no. 2 (1999).
30. Patricia Landolt, Transnational Communities” An Overview of Recent Evidence from Colombia, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador’. Report to the Programme in Comparative and International Development, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University (Manuscript, 1997).
31. David Browning, Conflicts in El Salvador, Conflict Studies, no. 168, 1984.
32. Ignacio Martan-Baro, Political Violence and War as Causes of Psychosocial Trauma in El Salvador’, International Journal of Mental Health, vol. 18 (1990), pp. 3-20.
33. Terry Repak, Waiting on Washington “ Central American Workers in the Nation's Capital. (Philadelphia, 1995) see also Cecilia Menjivar, Immigrant Kinship Networks and the Impact of the Receiving Context” Salvadorans in San Francisco in the Early 1990s’, Social Problems, vol. 44 (1997), pp. 104-23.
34. Sarah Mahler, American Dreaming” Immigrant Life on the Margins (Princeton, NJ, 1995) also Cecilia Menjivar, The Ties that (Un)Bind” Salvadoran Immigrants and the Transformation of Social Networks’ (Forthcoming).
35. Douglas Massey et al., Return to AztlaUn “ The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico (Berkeley, 1987)
36. Alejandro Portes and Jose Itzigsohn, The Party or the Grassroots” A Comparative Analysis of Urban Political Participation in the Caribbean Basin’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 18 (1994), pp. 491-508. See also chapter 12 of James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory.
37. See chapter seven in Bryan R. Roberts, The Making of Citizens (London,1995)
38. William Mangin, Peasants in Cities (Boston, 1970)
39. Roberto Michels, First Lectures in Political Sociology (Minneapolis, 1949).