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Social capital - the missing link?; Social capital in a multiculturalsociety - the case of Canada; The different faces of social capital in NSWAustralia; Studying civic culture ethnographically and what it tells us aboutsocial capital - communities in the West of Ireland; Traditional communities,caste and democracy - the Indian mystery; Religion and volunteering in theNetherlands; Volunteering and social capital - how trust and religion shapecivic participation in the United States; "'Getting to trust" - an analysisof the importance of institutions, families, personal experiences and groupmembership; Membership and democracy; The Everyday Maker - building politicalrather than social capital; "Not for our kind of people" - the sour-grapesphenomenon as a casual mechanism for political passivity; The social insocial capital.