From 'Bridging Social Capital' to 'Co-operative Social Capital'? Mapping Emergent Connectivities across Communities

我们的项目包括研究回顾和范围界定研究。研究综述的重点是社会资本在工党和联合政府中的地位、作用和意义。我们研究了两个“政策领域”，即社区凝聚力（工党）和“大社会”（联盟）。对于每一个政策领域，我们都查阅了文件、报告和演讲的档案。关于联合政府，我们的主要发现是，有一种协调一致的努力，以避免与工党政府有关的某些术语和概念。然而，我们确实注意到，联合政府对地方主义和“大”公民的强调方面更接近，例如，普特南（在他的书中更好地在一起）强调自下而上和自发的社会资本例子，而不是工党政府自上而下的尝试重新定位他们认为的“坏”（结合）社会资本，以促进“好的”桥梁社会资本在一系列社会排斥和所谓的“文化”隔离的社区。我们的主要建议是，应在更全面的审查中审查两国政府更多的政策领域。

Our project consisted of a research review and a scoping study. The focus of the research review was on the place, role and significance of social capital in the Labour and Coalition Governments. We examined two 'policy areas', namely community cohesion (Labour) and 'The Big Society' (Coalition). For each policy area we examined an archive of documents, reports and speeches. With regards to the Coalition Government our major finding was that there was a concerted effort to avoid certain terms and concepts that were associated with the Labour administration. However, we did note that aspects of the Coalition Government's emphasis on localism and the 'Big' citizen were closer to, for example, Putnam's emphasis (in his book Better Together) on bottom-up and spontaneous examples of social capital, than the Labour Government's top-down attempts to re-orient what they viewed as 'bad' (bonding) social capital to facilitate 'good' bridging social capital in a range of socially excluded and allegedly 'culturally' segregated communities. Our major recommendation was that many more policy areas across the two Governments should be examined in a more comprehensive review.