Capital social: debates y reflexiones en torno a un concepto polémico

Developed in the advanced capitalist countries, the concept of social capital, also known as social media weight-acquired Latin American social sciences in the nineties. International agencies like the World Bank and the Inter played a role in the interest given to this concept (Hintze 2004). The boom that took this concept is that it focused attention on the positive consequences of sociability while aside its less attractive features. Thus, much research on social capital is not sufficiently considered the costs of social exchange and power relations in which the networks are inserted. The a...