Locating Leisure in the Social Capital Literature

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AbstractThe guest editors of this special issue on leisure and social capital review the seminal perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu, James Coleman, and Robert Putnam on social capital. The review is followed by the authors' interpretations of the theoretical relationship between leisure and social capital, after which the contributions to this special issue are introduced. The aim of this introduction is help readers appreciate not only the relevance of social capital to leisure research but also the potential contributions of leisure research to the continued development of social capital theory.KEYWORDS: Citizenshipconceptual rigorleisuresocial capital