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Edwards and Foley, as editors of a special edition of the American Behavioural Scientist on " Social Capital, Civil Society and Contemporary Democracy ", raised two key issues in the study of social capital.

In " Social Capital and Development: The Coming Agenda ," Francis Fukuyama points out that there isn't an agreed definition of social capital, so he explains it as " shared norms or values that promote social cooperation, instantiated in actual social relationships " ( Fukuyama, 27 ), and uses this definition throughout this paper.

The Social Capital Foundation ( TSCF ) suggested that social capital should not be mixed up with its manifestations.

In this definition, social capital is a collective mental disposition close to the spirit of community .< ref >" The Social Capital Foundation ", Citizendium, The Citizen Compendium, < http :// en. citizendium. org / wiki / The_Social_Capital_Foundation >.</ ref >

Social Capital is also distinguished from the economic theory Social Capitalism.

Kathleen Dowley and Brian Silver published an article entitled " Social Capital, Ethnicity and Support for Democracy in the Post-Communist States ".

Tedin, Kent L. & Weiher, Gregory R. 2011, ‘ General Social Capital, Education-Related Social Capital, and Choosing Charter Schools ’, The policy Studies Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 609-29.

In her article " Social Capital in Chinatown ", Zhou examines how the process of adaptation of young Chinese Americans is affected by tangible forms of social relations between the community, immigrant families, and the younger generations.

" Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital ", American Journal of Sociology.

Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective.

" Social Capital and Equality: Tocqueville's Legacy.

" Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff?

* Lin, Nan, " Building a Network Theory of Social Capital ", 22 ( 1 ): 28-51 ,© 1999 INSNA.

" Placing Social Capital.

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* The Social Capital Foundation, Patrick Hunout

* Social Capital Gateway, Resources for the study of social capital

* The Saguaro Seminar's " Primer on Social Capital "

* A survey of and introduction to the current state of critical social theory is Craig Calhoun's Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference ( Blackwell, 1995 ) ISBN 1-55786-288-5

) No Social Science Without Critical Theory.

Volume 25 of Current Perspectives in Social Theory ( Emerald / JAI, 2008 ).

Many theoretical perspectives attempt to explain development ; among the most prominent are: Jean Piaget's Stage Theory, Lev Vygotsky's Social constructivism ( and its heirs, the Cultural Theory of Development of Michael Cole, and the Ecological Systems Theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner ), Albert Bandura's Social learning theory, and the information processing framework employed by cognitive psychology.

Eine Theorie der Gesellschaft ( Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour ), 1966, 1st English ed.

Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice.

The main journals which publish work in econometrics are Econometrica, the Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, the Econometrics Journal, Applied Econometrics and International Development, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and the Journal of Economic and Social Measurement.

* Mark A. Satterthwaite, " Strategy-proofness and Arrow's Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions ", Journal of Economic Theory 10 ( April 1975 ), 187 – 217.

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* Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory ( 1941 ), Presents the Hegelian Perspective along with a critique of Marxism and positivist philosophy .< ref name = oxfordref >" Marcuse, Herbert " A Dictionary of Sociology.

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Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

* Eliseo Verón ( 1935 – present ) developed his " Social Discourse Theory " inspired in the Peircian conception of " Semiosis ".

Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.

Nevertheless, none of these has held a single-party majority, with the notable exception of 1916 elections where Social Democrats gained 103 of the 200 seats.

Social Darwinism, which gained widespread acceptance, made no distinction between physical and social life, and viewed the human condition as being an unceasing struggle to achieve the survival of the fittest.

As a consequence of the unbalanced social development and the labour movement's continuous position in the political opposition, the Social Democratic Party had gained an absolute majority in the Parliament of Finland, in the general elections of 1916.

The Greens gained a record 13 of Germany's 99 seats in these elections, mainly due to the perceived competence of Green ministers in the federal government and the unpopularity of the Social Democratic Party.

The unionism Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), the republican Sinn Féin, the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ), and the nonsectarian Alliance Party of Northern Ireland all gained seats in Parliament in the 2010 election, the Alliance Party for the first time.

As the political influence of those promoting Neoliberal stances and Globalization gained prominence during the 1970s, the advocates of Import Substitution Industrialization, Protectionism, Social Corporatism, Syndicalism, many models of Socialism and other forms of Autarky or semi-Autarky began to occupy an increasingly marginalized space in public policy circles, professional economics and elected office.

Manning, son of longtime Alberta Premier Ernest Manning, gained support partly from the same political constituency as his father's old party, the Alberta Social Credit Party.

Madagascar's first President, Philibert Tsiranana, was elected when his Social Democratic Party gained power at independence in 1962 and was reelected without opposition in March 1972.

The outcome of the 1994 election proved a success for the Social Democrats when they gained more than 45 % of the votes.

In the 1998 election the Social Democrats gained even fewer votes than in the 1991 election, when they got voted out of office.

In 1947, the World Alliance of YMCAs gained special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Housing issues in Hammersmith and Fulham gained greater publicity after Cllr Greenhalgh co-authored the Localism policy paper Principles of Social Housing Reform in 2009 which called for a move to “ near market rents ” and an end to lifelong secure tenancies for council housing tenants.

The blockade was caused, in part, by early local elections of October 1946 in which the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) was rejected in favor of the Social Democratic Party, which had gained two and a half times more votes than the SED.

In the summer of 1993 the ILGA gained consultative status on the UN Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ) as a Non-Governmental-Organization, joining 3, 000 organisations throughout the world.

The Right Party was the major party until 1931, when the Social Democratic Party gained that position.

At the elections held on the 25 November 2007, the Croatian Party of Rights ( HSP ) and the Croatian Democratic Assembly of Slavonia and Baranja ( HDSSB ) gained 7 seats each, the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) 6 seats, the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) 4, and the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats ( HNS ) 1.

Despite a politically turbulent mandate ( in 1994, the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia left the coalition ), the Party gained votes in 1996, remaining the largest party in the government.

It was affiliated with the Social Gospel Movement, which applied Christianity to social issues and gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement.

Manning, son of longtime Alberta Premier Ernest Manning, gained support partly from the same political constituency as his father's old party, the Social Credit Party of Alberta.

Inside the Social Democratic party, the official leadership was derailed while the executive committee of the Red Guards and the labour unions gained more power.

The Centre was established in October 2009 with matching funding provided by the Economic and Social Research Council and gained further funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council from March 2010.

A major component was the Social Gospel Movement, which applied Christianity to social issues and gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary movement.

The patriarchal role Rasmussen had built for himself since the 11 September attacks had gained him and the Social Liberals their highest poll ratings in years, a lead that would be eroded in the buildup to the election.