Title: Chapter 2: What is Social Capital and How Does It Work to Improve Health?
Abstract: Social capital, a recent important reconceptualization of an old and well-respected idea, developed from ideas of community known for hundreds of years — perhaps millennia. John Locke explained its value: “God having made Man such a Creature, that, in his own Judgment, it was not good for him to be alone, put him under strong Objectives of Necessity, Convenience and Inclination to drive him into Society as well as fitted him with the Understanding and Language to continue to enjoy it” (1689, p. 318)…
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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