{"id":2744,"date":"2012-01-11T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:46:09","slug":"spying-social-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/01\/11\/spying-social-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Spying Social Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Marc_Smith on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/49503165485@N01\/6670326297\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7156\/6670326297_d271e6f230_m.jpg\" alt=\"20120109-NodeXL-Twitter-waze network graph\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As sociologists, sometimes we just can\u2019t stop connecting concepts we read in magazines or on TV to our field.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s always nice when we see the concepts are connected for us and, more importantly, for a broader public.<\/p>\n<p>As I was exploring internship opportunities for my students this semester, I ran across a tidbit of sociological knowledge on the the website of an organization that supports battered women and children (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeesperanza.org\/about-us\/\">Casa de Esperanza<\/a>).\u00a0 It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Casa de Esperanza works to enhance<strong> social capital<\/strong> because we believe that it decreases domestic violence. <em>Social capital<\/em> refers to the trust, reciprocity, information and co-operation that are developed through social networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it even cites Robert Putnam\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bowlingalone.com\/\"><em>Bowling Alone<\/em><\/a>! \u00a0Needless to say, I was impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As sociologists, sometimes we just can\u2019t stop connecting concepts we read in magazines or on TV to our field.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s always nice when we see the concepts are connected for us and, more importantly, for a broader public. As I was exploring internship opportunities for my students this semester, I ran across a tidbit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[1492,816],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-putnam","tag-social-capital"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}