Contents
Contributors
Preface - Melvin L. Oliver
Foreword - Robert D. Putnam
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Role of Social Capital in Combating Poverty - Mark R. Warren, J. Phillip Thompson, and Susan Saegert
Part I. The Creation and Destruction of Social Capital
Chapter 2. Social Capital and the Culture of Power: Lessons from the Field - M. Lisette Lopez and Carol B. Stack
Chapter 3. Social Capital in America's Poor Rural Communities - Cynthia M. Duncan
Part II. Policy Arenas
Chapter 4. Crime and Public Safety: Insights from Community-Level Perspectives on Social Capital
Chapter 5. Making Social Capital Work: Social Capital and Community Economic Development - Ross Gittell and J. Phillip Thompson
Chapter 6. Housing, Social Capital, and Poor Communities - Langley C. Keyes
Chapter 7. Social Capital, Poverty, and Community Health: An Exploration of Linkages - Sherman A. James, Amy J. Schulz, and Juliana von Olphen
Chapter 8. Transforming Urban Schools through Investments in the Social Capital of Parents - Pedro A. Noguera
Part III. Institutional Settings
Chapter 9. Social Capital, Religious Institutions, and Poor Communities - Michael W. Foley, John D. McCarthy, and Mark Chaves
Chapter 10. Capitalizing on Labor's Capital - Margaret Levi
Chapter 11. Social Capital, Intervening Institutions, and Political Power - Cathy J. Cohen
Chapter 12. Social Capital, Political Participation, and the Urban Community - Ester R. Fuchs, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Lorraine C. Minnite
Index