scholarly journals Creating Social Capital in the Early American Republic: The View from Connecticut

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann N. Neem
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Early American ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
New Form

During the early years of the American republic, Connecticut's elite helped to develop a new form of social order, based on voluntary association, replacing the authoritarian, theological hierarchy of the old regime. Social relations, which were once thought fixed in nature by divine sanction, became amenable to the initiatives of the populace. By the antebellum era, Americans had also discovered that social capital could be created through the ordinary activities of people engaged in civil society.

Pushing Elusive Alliances into the Light - Discovering the Value of Informal Networks on the Internet

2004 ◽  
pp. 292-310
Author(s):  
Rian van der Merwe ◽  
Leyland F. Pitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Network Organizations ◽  
New Form

Sociologists have for many years explored the value of social capital, or the resources embedded in social relations and social network structures. In recent years, organizational forms such as strategic alliances and network organizations have been an important new form of entrepreneurial venture, particularly in business markets. An important and often overlooked type of alliance on the Internet is what we call the “elusive alliance”. These alliances are not formally acknowledged, they are difficult to identify and can often be unknown, even to the members of the alliance themselves. They consist of informal links and social networks on the Internet—unspoken connections and codes of conduct that are extremely valuable because of the social capital embedded in them. This chapter aims to find ways to formally identify and expand these alliances in entrepreneurial ways that will improve their effectiveness, usefulness and ultimately, their social capital, translated into financial returns. We use Social Network Theory as the framework to study these networks.

Social Capital, Civic Labor, and State Capacity in the Early American Republic: Schools, Courts, and Law Enforcement

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-353
Author(s):  
Johann N. Neem
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
State Power ◽  
State Building ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Early American ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Education And Law

Abstract:This article examines the local roots of the American state to complicate existing historiography. It suggests that, for education and law, the state tapped into local social capital to develop capacity. State and local governments relied on the mobilization of citizens’ bodies—civic labor—to provide public goods. In doing so, it suggests that we need to offer a story that captures the myriad ways that Americans engaged in state-building, and how those different forms shaped Americans’ relations with state power.

scholarly journals THE PROCESSES ANALYSIS OF URBANIZATION, SPATIAL ARTICULATION, SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL DIFFERENCE IN THE DYNAMICS OF NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT IN THE FRINGE AREA OF MAKASSAR CITY, INDONESIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1229-1241
Author(s):  
Batara Surya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Local Community ◽  
City Development ◽  
New Town ◽  
Town Development ◽  
New City ◽  
Mode Of Production

The study aims at analyzing process of urbanization and spatial articulation as the determinant of social change, and finding out social capital differences between migrant and local community in the dynamics of new city development in Metro Tanjung Bunga area. The findings show that spatial articulation in Metro Tanjung Bunga area was initiated by the development of new functions as a stimulating factor of urbanization and infiltrative and expansive migration to Metro Tanjung Bunga area. Spatial articulation causes coexistence of two kinds of mode of production in mastery of reproduction of space which is dominated by capitalist mode of production. It also has an effect of social change and social capital difference between migrant and local community. Occupational differentiation drives process of social interaction between local community and migrant in purpose to establish social relationship and social relations. Economically, the establishment is integrative for basic needs compliance and in effort to maintain existence of local community. Social change portrays differences of social capital, social order and life style between expansive migrant,infiltrative migrant and local community.

Susanna Rowson’s Barbary Captivity Narrative, or the Struggle for the Freedom of American Women in Algiers

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Sabrina Zerar
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Sentimental Literature ◽  
Captivity Narrative ◽  
American Women ◽  
Early American ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
The Many

This research explores the feminist dimensions of Rowson's play, Slaves in Algiers or, a struggle for freedom (1794), from historicist and dialogical perspectives. More particularly, it looks at the play within the context of the politics of the early American republic to uncover how Rowson deploys the captivity of American sailors in Algiers (1785-1796) as a pretext to deconstrust the established gender power relations without hurting the sensibilities of her audience in its reference to the issue of black slavery. The research also unveils the many intertextual relationships that the play holds with the prevalent captivity culture of the day, sentimental literature, and more specifically with Cervantes’s Don Quixote.

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