A Critical Handbook of Capitals Mushrooming Across the Social Sciences

The book is the first this comprehensive analysis of a set of concepts currently much in vogue across all the social scieces. Human capital, social capital, cultural capital, and an array of their less known realatives are criticallly examined, a number of common flaws of those notions being exposed. To put it in a nutshell, the fad in question is a vivid example of economic imperialism. Cognitive merits of the concepts involved are found to be negative, so that the final conclusion and advice to all social scientists is to discard this economistic framework altogether.

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Jacek Tittenbrun is a professor of sociology,currently at the University of Poznan. He has about 200 scholarly publications to his credit, mostly in the field of economic sociology, social class and social theory. His most recent book is 'Economy in Society'. Economic Sociology Revisited', CSP, in press.His original theoretical framework, termed so