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Gendering Social Capital and Population Health

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Several authors pointed out that the gender dimension of social capital has been under-recognized in comparison with other demographic issues. Social capital was originally conceptualized gender-blind, and whenever gender issues have been highlighted, they have been raised by female scholars (e.g., Edwards 2004, Caiazza 2005, O’Neill and Gidengil 2006, van Emmerik 2006, Warr 2006). Gender was more or less disregarded by the Great Fathers of social capital, Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam. While gender cannot be totally ignored in writing about the social capital theory, any observations concerning gender seem to remain rather superficial.

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Hyyppä, M.T. (2010). Gendering Social Capital and Population Health. In: Healthy Ties. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9606-7_11

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