Social Capital in Tarikh-e-Beihaghi

جستارهای نوین ادبی

Article 8, Volume 41, Issue 4 - Serial Number 163, January 2009, Pages 151-173   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v41i1.13187

Abstract

Social capital is a systematic set of organized links between the members of a group or a society which is based on specific norms and rules and results into obtaining individual and collective purposes. The category of social capital is different with from current concept of capital in sociology, law and economy. Features like cooperation, knowledge, participating in public affairs, tolerating others and group works are a kind of investment that has no individual owner and has its roots in the past. The writer of this article has studied Tarikh-e-Beihaghi written by Khaje Abolfazl Mohammad-ibn-e-Dabir known as Beihaghi; and has analyzed the different forms of social capital. He has also tried to reconstruct the signs of decline and rise of that period.