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On Friday, March 20th, in the conference hall of ISET, Jan Fidrmuc from Brunel University gave a presentation titled "How Persistent Is Social Capital?”. In the beginning of the presentation he has defined Social Capital (SK) as one of the factors of production which encourages cooperation and helps to overcome free-riding. Fidrmuc presented different measures of Social Capital such as social connections and interactions expressed in interpersonal relations, civic participation, trust and reciprocity.
Guest speaker talked about the social and economic effects of Social Capital and argued that contemporaneous Social Capital need not be determined by long-term historical legacies.
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On March 6th, ISET hosted Iago Kachkachishvili, Ph.D. under its Lecture Series of Distinguished Professors conducted in cooperation with Tbilisi State University. Iago Kachkachishvili is a Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University. Prof. Kachkachishvili delivered a lecture and presentation titled “The Problem of Objectivity in Social Sciences”.
The presenter started the seminar by acquainting the audience with his scientific background and path to the sociology. Later he introduced the topic of the seminar. In order to establish objectivity in social sciences, one has to agree that source of the objective knowledge, somehow, lies in the socium, in the social domain and it might not be given from outside source, such as god, religion or something else. Prof. Kachkachishvili listed three characteristics necessary to establish objectivity.
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