* Putnam, Robert D. Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society.

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 Theory gained importance through the integration of classical sociological theory with the description of an intangible form of capital.

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.

* " The Social Capital Foundation ", Citizendium, The Citizen Compendium, < http :// en. citizendium. org / wiki / The_Social_Capital_Foundation >.

* 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.

* Millennialism And Social Theory, 1990 ISBN 0-930464-49-4

* Graver, Suzanne, George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form, Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984.

The Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment ( 1997 ) excerpt and text search

* 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.

Rousseau: An Introduction to his Psychological, Social, and Political Theory.

* A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

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 ".

" Moral Reasoning in Social Context.

3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context.

Japan's Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context.

A Critical Analysis of the First-Century Social Context of Paul's Letter.

* Gerald Graff ( 1975 ) Babbitt at the Abyss: The Social Context of Postmodern.

* Walter Rodney, " African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave Trade ".

Stephen Hilgartner, the Cornell University science and technologies department chairman, wrote " The Sokal Affair in Context " ( 1997 ) comparing Sokal's hoax to " Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals " ( 1990 ), an article by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.

( 2008 ) " Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of Email Interaction.

The Social Context Cues Theory is a model to measure the different types of communication and how they maintain the non-verbal cues that are present in face to face interactions.

* Finnegan, Ruth H., Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context ( Cambridge, 1977 )

* Halliwell, Ruth ( 1998 ) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context, Oxford University Press.

* The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism

* Rod Bantjes, Social Movements in a Global Context, CSPI, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55130-324-6

( eds ), Irish Social Policy in Context ( UCD Press, 1999 ) ISBN 1-900621-25-8

* Coser, L., ( 1977 ) Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context.

With Richard Taub, he is the co-author of There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America and Good Kids in Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context.

" The Social Context of Democracy in Massachusetts ," William and Mary Quarterly ( 1968 ) 25: 523-544 in JSTOR

* Brent L. Nelson, " The Social Context of Rhetoric, 1500-1660 ," The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, Second Series, Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. 355 – 377.

" On Dating the Duchess: The Personal and Social Context of Book of the Duchess.

* Halliwell, Ruth ( 1998 ) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-816371-1.

In 1984 he published Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology with Margaret Wetherell and Peter Stringer.

Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology.