capital social

¿Qué es el Capital Social y cómo Analizarlo
en contextos de Exclusión Social y Pobreza?
Estudios de Caso en Buenos Aires, Argentina
by
Pablo Forni (IDICSO, USAL)
Marcelo Siles (SCI/JSRI, MSU)
Lucrecia Barreiro (IDICSO, USAL)

Research Report No. 35
December 2004

¿Qué es el Capital Social y cómo Analizarlo
en contextos de Exclusión Social y Pobreza?
Estudios de Caso en Buenos Aires, Argentinaby
Pablo Forni (IDICSO, USAL)
Marcelo Siles (SCI/JSRI, MSU)
Lucrecia Barreiro (IDICSO, USAL)

Research Report No. 35
December 2004

About the Authors:
Pablo Forni
Licenciado en Sociología de la Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires), M.A. (1995) y Ph.D. (2000) in Sociology,
University of Notre Dame. Emerging Scholar Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Action(ARNOVA) 2000. Investigador del CONICET. Director del IDICSO (Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias
Sociales), Universidad del Salvador. Profesor de la Universidad del Salvador y de FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana
de Ciencias Sociales). Su área de investigación incluye la Sociología de las Organizaciones, en especial las
organizaciones del Tercer Sector. Actualmente investiga sobre el accionar delas organizaciones de base y las ONGs, el
desarrollo de redes organizacionales y la formación de Capital Social.
Marcelo Siles
Marcelo E. Siles is a Senior Research Associate with the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State
University. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and is a former Co-Director of the Social Capital Initiative at
Michigan State University. His research focuseson the role of social capital in economic development and poverty
reduction.
Lucrecia Barreiro
Tesista en Sociología de la Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires). Asistente de Investigación del área de “Ong´s y
Políticas Públicas” del Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad del Salvador (IDICSO-USAL).
Docente auxiliar en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad delSalvador.

Michigan State University

Julian Samora Research Institute

East Lansing, Michigan

Dr. Dionicio Valdés, Interim Director
Danny Layne, Layout Editor

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contextos de Exclusión Social y Pobreza?,” JSRI Research Report #35, The Julian Samora Research
Institute, MichiganState University, East Lansing, Michigan, 2004.

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¿Qué es el Capital Social y cómo Analizarlo
en contextos de Exclusión Social y Pobreza?
Estudios de Caso en Buenos Aires, Argentina

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