Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life

1. Introduction 2. Social capital: the missing link? 3. Social capital in a multicultural society: the case of Canada 4. The different faces of social capital in NSW Australia 5. Studying civic culture ethnographically and what it tells us about social capital: communities in the West of Ireland 6. Traditional communities, caste and democracy: the Indian mystery 7. Religion and volunteering in the Netherlands 8. Volunteering and social capital: how trust and religion shape civic participation in the United States 9. 'Getting to trust': an analysis of the importance of institutions, families, personal experiences and group membership 10. Membership and democracy 11. The Everyday Maker: building political rather than social capital 12. 'Not for our kind of people': the sour-grapes phenomenon as a casual mechanism for political passivity 13. The social in social capital