Mentor Social Capital, Individual Agency and Working-class Student Learning Outcomes: Revisiting the Structure/Agency Dialectic

Social Capital and Student Learning:

Empirical Results from Latin American Primary Schools Joan B. Anderson University of San Diego Appendix 2 Empirical Results: HLM Estimation of the Equations The Data Empirical estimates of the cross-city effects of social capital within the classroom on language and math achievement and on the likelihood of promotion are based on data that were gathered in 1999, using stratified random sampling...

Trustful Relationships: Partnerships, Social Capital and Individual Agency

Globalisation and reflexive modernity are said to be generating new opportunities for local territorial and individual agency. As actors seek to intervene in order to ensure an equable socio-economic outcome, they increasingly employ the theory of endogenous development. However, the theory itself does not explain the nature of human and territorial agency, nor the mechanism by which such agenc...

Individualising the social - socialising the individual : Interdependence between social and individual agency in vocational learning

The Growing Relevance of Marcuse's Dialectic of Individual and Class

I shall here examine aspects of Herbert Marcuse's recent work in the context of a more general examination and critique of con? temporary western Marxism. In this sense, I propose to treat Marcuse as the harbinger of a new perspective in the Marxist tradition, as well as one of the most articulate expositors of the "old" western Marxism, buried once and for all in the decade of the 1960s. My ar...

the relationship between language and social capital in ilami kurdish: a sociopragmatic approach

چکیده زبان به عنوان یک وسیله در ایجاد و بازسازی سرمایه اجتماعی در چند دهه گذشته مورد توجه بوده است. اگر چه درباره سرمایه اجتماعی و سازه های مربوط به آن زیاد نوشته شده است ولی خیلی کم بر روی اینکه چطور زبان می تواند باعث ایجاد اعتماد یا بی اعتمادی بشود مطالعه ای انجام شده است. این مطالعه به منظور تحقق دو هدف انجام گرفته است. اول تلاش خواهد شد تا یک گونه شناسی از واژگانی که مردم کرد زبان شهر ا...