Social capital is relevant to every aspect of human existence as it facilitates information flows and distributes other forms of capital in ways that would otherwise not occur.
I receive emails almost every day from people who are looking to apply social capital to an aspect of social, political, economic, educational, environmental, or an other endevour.
All these applications are relevant, and I wish every researcher success with their social capital work.
Tristan Claridge completed a Masters thesis on social capital theory in 2004 at the University of Queensland. Although Tristan originally wanted to apply social capital theory to natural resource management outcomes in Australia, he found that the current understanding of social capital was not sufficiently conceptualised to allow this application. Read more
