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International Journal of Epidemiology 2004 33(4):667-671; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh204
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IJE vol.33 no.4 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: ‘Health by association’: some comments

Robert D Putnam

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Taubman 370, Cambridge MA 02138, USA. E-mail: robert_putnam@harvard.edu

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That ‘social capital’ has been, at least, faddish in international policy and social scientific circles during the last decade is beyond doubt. After several decades of intellectual and political hegemony on the part of an individualistic philosophy that claimed that ‘there is no such thing as society,’1 advocates of the social capital perspective argued for renewed emphasis on the importance of social networks and norms in many spheres of our lives—from job placement to democratic governance to health. To be sure, in a number of specific sub-disciplines, such as the sociology of labour markets or criminology or social epidemiology, researchers were already well aware of the importance of social networks.* The new social capital agenda capitalized on this prior work, and by framing the underlying issues in terms of a broader intellectual agenda, gave added prominence to it. Researchers in many different fields (not just those in which social networks . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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