附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Introduction -- 2 Social capital: the missing link? -- 3 Social capital in a multicultural society: the case of Canada -- 4 The different faces of social capital in NSW Australia -- 5 Studying civic culture ethnographically and what it tells us about social capital: communities in the West of Ireland -- 6 Traditional communities, caste and democracy: the Indian mystery -- 7 Religion and volunteering in the Netherlands -- 8 Volunteering and social capital: how trust and religion shape civic participation in the United States -- 9 'Getting to trust': an analysis of the importance of institutions, families, personal experiences and group membership -- 1 0 -- Membership and democracy -- 1 -- 1 The Everyday Maker: building political rather than social capital -- 1 -- 2 'Not for our kind of people': the sour-grapes phenomenon as a casual mechanism for political passivity -- 1 -- 3 The social in social capital.