Recent movement toward more comprehensive institutional perspectives on development has been stimulated by two distinct challenges to narrow development theories. Theorists of "social capital" have highlighted the degree to which norms of trust and the interpersonal networks on which they are based constitute economic assets. Revisionist theories of the "East Asian Miracle" hav...(展开全部)

Recent movement toward more comprehensive institutional perspectives on development has been stimulated by two distinct challenges to narrow development theories. Theorists of "social capital" have highlighted the degree to which norms of trust and the interpersonal networks on which they are based constitute economic assets. Revisionist theories of the "East Asian Miracle" hav...(展开全部)

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade-particularly in public health -so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Ichiro Kawachi, a widely respected leader in the field, and 21 contributors (including physicians, economists, and public health experts) discuss the theoretical origins of social capital, the strengths ...(展开全部)

The recent, highly sucessful publication of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam, has attracted new attention to the subject of civil society. While markets and democracies arise in formerly Communist states, the established liberal democracies of Western Europe, North America, and East Asia grow increasingly dissatisfied with the insti...(展开全部)

In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social capital in eight advanced democracies around the world. The book is packed with many intriguing revelations. The contributors note...(展开全部)

The success of this best-selling text lies in the author's belief that a good text talks with, rather than at, its readers. Shaffer does an extraordinary job of anticipating students' interests, questions, and concerns while treating them as active participants in the process of learning about social and personality development. The Sixth edition of SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVEL...(展开全部)

戴维·谢弗 (David R. Shaffer) 是美国佐治亚大学心理学教授，佐治亚大学本科生项目主席，毕生发展心理学与社会心理学项目前任主席，在该大学给本科生和研究生教授人类发展课程35年。他发表的多篇研究论文涉及到利他行为、态度与说服、道德发展、性别角色与社会行为、自我表露、社会心理学与法律。他还担任《人格与社会心理学杂志》、《人格与社会学学报》、《人格杂志》的副主编。1990年，他获得佐治亚大学最高教学荣誉奖约西亚·梅格斯(Josiah Meigs)优秀教学奖。