Figure 1: Triangular conceptualisation of the social benefits of learning
There are strong connections between human and social capital, so strong indeed that
some critics of social capital argue that it adds nothing to our analytical capacity that
human capital does not already supply. (Other critics, by contrast, argue that the
notion of cultural capital as developed by Bourdieu and others has a more incisive
analytical edge.) Once again, social capital figures in the literature both as an input
and an output, attracting the criticism that it is inherently circular. However, we
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