Çocuklar, Çocukluk ve Sosyal Sermaye: Bağlantıların İncelenmesi

Bu makale çocukların sosyal sermaye ‘varlıklarını’ nasıl geliştirdikleri ve kullandıklarını incelemekte ve bu çerçevede çocukların aile, akran ve toplum bağlantılarına ışık tutan iki araştırma projesinden yararlanmaktadır. Gelişmekte olan sosyal sermaye veya sosyo-kapital literatüründe çocukların üzerinde yeterince durulmamıştır. Gerçekten de, literatürün büyük bölümünde çocuklar üzerinde yeterince durulmamış, var olan ağları nasıl algıladıkları ya da nasıl ek ağlar yarattıklarını ve bunları nasıl yönettikleri düşünülmemiş, sosyal sermaye “varlıklarının” çocuklara aktarımı konusu basit bir bakış açısı ile ele alınmıştır. Makalede Putnam, Coleman ve Bourdieu tarafından ileri sürülen sosyal sermaye kavramının içinde çocuk ve çocukluğun ele alınışı incelenecektir. Sosyal sermayenin en önemli özelliklerinden biri diğer sermaye türlerine dönüştürülebiliyor olmasıdır. Çocukların sosyal ağlarına odaklanmak aynı zamanda bu sosyal sermaye dönüşümünün irdelenmesini de kaçınılmaz kılacaktır

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Bourdieu, çocuklar, Coleman, Putnam, sosyal sermaye

Çocuklar, Çocukluk ve Sosyal Sermaye: Bağlantıların İncelenmesi

This article is concerned with exploring how children develop and utilize stocks of social capital. It draws on two research projects illustrating children’s family, peer and community networks. In the burgeoning literature on social capital, children’s accounts remain under-researched. Indeed most of the literature operates with a simplistic view of adults passing social capital assets on to children without a subsequent consideration of how children perceive and make use of existing networks and create and manage additional networks. The article will examine the limited treatment of children and childhood in the conceptualization of social capital put forward by Putnam, Coleman and Bourdieu. One of the most important attributes of social capital is its supposed ability to be converted into other forms of capital. A focus on children’s networks calls into question the ease with which social capital can be transformed into other types of capital

Keywords:

Bourdieu, children, Coleman, Putnam, social capital,

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