Africa’s booming youth population is often seen as a "jobless generation." But in Kenya alone, young people are already adding more than 530 million dollars a month to the economy through informal businesses. Social entrepreneur Anuj...

Who gets to be an entrepreneur? Saamra Mekuria-Grillo says the image we most commonly see — a guy in a hoodie — is a limiting representation of entrepreneurial success. She highlights the importance of young Black people seeing...

Organizations are often run according to "the superchicken model," where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn't what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan...

J.D. Vance grew up in a small, poor city in the Rust Belt of southern Ohio, where he had a front-row seat to many of the social ills plaguing America: a heroin epidemic, failing schools, families torn apart by divorce and sometimes...

The top ten countries on the prosperity index, determined by rankings across nine key categories: Economic Quality, Natural Environment, Health, Social Capital, Personal Freedom, Safety and Security, Education, Governance, and Business...

What is Social Network Analysis? Social network analysis is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes and the ties, edges, or...

What is Social Capital? Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively".

This video is an attempt to better understand Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl, but it takes the long way. In the video I explain the historical context of Dutch Genre Painting and some of the iconography associated with this style...

What is Social Capital? Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively".

In today's What the Theory?, I take a look social class looking at both Karl Marx's theory of class as well as Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital and more societally rooted approaches to class in the twenty-first...

Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education.



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Social capital theory, including Robert Putnam's and Pierre Bourdieu's view, has important business implications for leaders.

In essence, social capital is a term that describes the power of relationships, the value found in...

U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital.
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Peter Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the...

This film looks at how social control in the Night-Time Economy of pubs and clubs is increasingly created and maintained by professional Bouncers rather than the police.

This video explains what intellectual capital is and its meaning and definition for your professional development and management

The video looks at the meaning or definition of intellectual capital, examples, how it is largely an...

A new cohort of workers has made the jump from hourly positions to roles requiring technical skills but not necessarily college diplomas. What does this new type of career path mean for the future of the labor market?

Chernor is an acclaimed global advocate for education, a champion for girls and an expert in international development. As a teenager, he founded Sierra Leone’s Children’s Parliament to center youth voices in post-war reconstruction...

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also been a Professor at the...

Sony Kapoor on why Asia will soon be a key region in the world economy and what the most important economic issue is today.

The best performers are those who ask for help and give it in return. Yet biases may prevent some groups from participating in those exchanges. Hear strategies for creating a culture of reciprocity at work from Give and Take Inc. CEO...