Timber access in the Indian Himalaya: Rethinking social capital in public policy
研究印度喜马拉雅地区木材获取的实际过程，发现正式政策之外，非正式社会关系网络是关键，但现有社会等级限制了不同群体的网络构建机会，并论证布迪厄的社会资本概念比普特南和科尔曼的理解更适用于解释社会分化。
Abstract Timber access in Himachal Pradesh (India) is formally regulated by state policy. However, actual access is determined through a complex network of informal social relations developed and maintained over time, which form a critical resource that allows particular forms of capital accumulation. This essay shows that the nature of policy execution in India necessitates the development and use of this type of social capital. However, existing social hierarchies compartmentalise social space and create differential opportunities for social agents to establish and nurture such networks. While supporting critiques of currently popular understandings of social capital that draw on Putnam and Coleman, this essay makes a case for the relevance of Bourdieu's conception of social capital in understanding the process of social differentiation.