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Item Lifelong Capital: An Ethnographic Investigation into How Social Capital is Produced by Lifelong Learning Literacies Groups(2023) UnknownIt has been argued by recent sociological research using qualitative and quantitative methods that lifelong learning literacies groups have the utility of producing social capital for their learners. This finding is significant as it has allowed for an interactionist contribution to the withstanding sociological debate concerning the role of lifelong learning in society. What has been missed by this recent research is an explanation as to how these interactions within lifelong learning literacies groups contribute to the production of social capital. It is this missing area of knowledge that this research seeks to address. Using an ethnographic methodology consisting of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, this research finds that both interactive aspects of the dynamics and relationships in the group are imperative to the production and facilitation of social capital. This research enriches and provides nuance to the interactionist contribution to the lifelong learning debate. Thus, potentially providing useful insights and considerations to workers and researchers within all lifelong learning provisions.Item Grassroots football volunteering in a de-industrialised locale as a source of social capital(2021)De-industrialisation and its impact on local populations, while a long-standing theme of sociological research, is notoriously difficulty to make concrete and bring into focus as its reality seems more of an ‘absence’ than a presence; refers to a social condition heavily characterised by the on-going impact of a set of social conditions that have gone; a former set of defining conditions that have not been replaced; is akin to describing a reality in people’s lives that is ‘missed.’ The question of the presence of the past in the present is explored through interviews with locals in Dalkeith.Item “DOES WHO YOU KNOW REALLY MATTER? THE PERCEPTIONS OF SCOTTISH CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS ON SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE”(2020)Responding to legislative and social developments, this paper investigates the perceptions of Scottish children’s rights organisations (SCRO) towards the effects of social capital in children and young people (CYP) on their inclusion in youth public participation. Findings show SCRO perceived professional networks as centrally important to CYP’s inclusion, however, viewed CYP’s own social capital as a weaker influence of less importance to their inclusion. Nuances to these perceptions included a correlation with the youth public participation format SCRO conduct. Supporting SCRO’s strong desire to be inclusive, opportunities for further investigation are identified.