This event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.
For social capital researchers, these sessions are an opportunity to hear about the latest social capital research and insights from scholars working on the concept. They can be a great way to connect with people, to get advice, discuss ideas or issues, get suggestions for literature to read, or you can just listen.
Are you researching social capital and want to present your research? Click here for more information and to submit a proposal.
Generally, presentations can be 20 to 30 mins. The content of your presentation will depend on your research stage.
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The presentation by Rick Mast was a succinct and clear articulation of social capital in its relation to leadership, and in how this construct structures how agents (in a Bourdieusian sense), produce meaning and changed perceptions emerging from embodied schemas, socialisations and history. Rick’s presentation dovetails with habitus, in terms of its critique of structuralist accounts that suggest that social capital is simply a mechanical effect of structural causes, neglecting the agents’ possession of ‘free will’ and agency. So too, the need to transcend the antinomies and antithetical binaries of: objective-subjective; conditioning-creativity; individual- society’; determinism and freedom…. Thank you for an energetic and meaningful webinar. I’m so happy yo have found this site across global and multidisciplinary intersections!