Social capital : an international research program / edited by Nan Lin and Bonnie H. Erickson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lin, Nan, 1938-

Erickson, Bonnie H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social capital (Sociology).

Community development.

Community organization.

Social participation.

Physical Description:

xx, 468 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

For two decades, a significant number of scholars have subscribed to a common definition of social capital (resources embedded in social networks), employed a standard measurement (the position generator methodology), and conducted original research. Their sustained efforts have demonstrated the power of the concept of social capital in diverse arenas of research and varied cultural and societal settings. Their work has contributed to the substantiation, development, and expansion of social capital as a key scientific concept and theory.

This book presents an introduction to some of the most recent work in the area. The volume editors have brought together scholars in North America, Europe, and East Asia to offer original and accessible reports of their own research studies. Covering both methodological and substantive issues, they demonstrate the continued importance of social capital as a guiding concept and theory in social sciences today.

Contents:

Theory, measurement, and the research enterprise on social capital / Nan Lin, Bonnie H. Erickson

Position generator measures and their relationship to other social capital measures / Martin van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Flap

Position generator and actual networks in everyday life : an evaluation with contact diary / Yang-chih Fu

Social, cultural, and economic capital, and job attainment : the position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources / Henk Flap, Beate Völker

The formation of social capital among Chinese urbanites : theoretical explanation and empirical evidence / Yanjie Bian

The invisible hand of social capital : an exploratory study / Nan Lin, Dan Ao

Social resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course / Hester Moerbeek, Henk Flap

A question of access or mobilization? Understanding inefficacious job referral networks among the Black poor / Sandra Susan Smith

Social networks of participants in voluntary associations / Rene Bekkers, Beate Volker, Martin van der Gaag, Henk Flap

The Internet, social capital, civic engagement, and gender in Japan / Kakuko Miyata, Ken'ichi Ikeda, Tetsuro Kobayashi

Social capital of personnel managers : the causes and return of position-generated networks and the participation in voluntary associations / Ray-May Hsung, Yi-Jr Lin

It's not only who you know, it's also where they are : using the position generator to investigate the structure of access to embedded resources / Sandra Enns, Todd Malinick, Ralph Matthews

Gender, network capital, social capital, and political capital : the consequences of personal network diversity for environmentalists in British Columbia / D. B. Tindall, Jeffrey J. Cormier

Civic participation and social capital : a social network analysis in two American counties / Marc Porter Magee

Why some occupations are better known than others / Bonnie H. Erickson

Marriage, gender, and social capital / Gina Lai

Access to social capital and status attainment in the United States : racial/ethnic, and gender differences / Jennifer L. Moren Cross, Nan Lin

Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia / Catherine A. Johnson

Assessing social capital and attainment dynamics : position generator applications in Hungary, 1987-2003 / Róbert Angelusz, Róbert Tardos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-445) and index.

ISBN:

0199234388

9780199234387

OCLC:

173748937