Contexts of social capital : social networks in markets, communities, and families / edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald L. Breiger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breiger, Ronald L.

Hsung, Ray-May.

Lin, Nan, 1938-

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 43.

Routledge advances in sociology ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social action.

Social capital (Sociology).

Social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in ""getting ahead."" Social capital isn't just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges. This volume focuses on how social capital interacts with social institutions, based on the premise that markets, communities, and families are the major contexts within which people meet and build up social networks and the foci to create social capital. Featuring innovations in thinking about exchange mechanisms, r

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; Part I Advances in Theory and Methods of Social Capital; 1 Position Generators, Affiliations, and the Institutional Logics of Social Capital: A Study of Taiwan Firms and Individuals; 2 Changing Places: The Influence of Meeting Places on Recruiting Friends; 3 Does The Golden Rule Rule?; 4 Making Democracy Work via the Functioning of Heterogeneous Personal Networks: An Empirical Analysis Based on a Japanese Election Study; Part II Markets and Social Capital

5 The Context Challenge: Generalizing Social Capital Processes Across Two Different Settings6 The Transaction Cost: Embeddedness Approach to Studying Chinese Outsourcing; 7 Constructed Network as Social Capital: The Transformation of Taiwan's Small and Medium Enterprise Organization; Part III Social Capital in Communities; 8 Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China; 9 The Distribution and Return of Social Capital in Taiwan; 10 Social Capital in Communities, Development and Integration: The Four Village Case Study in Hungary, 2000

11 Distinctiveness and Disadvantage Among the Urban Poor: Is Low Network Capital Really the Problem?Part IV Families and Social Capital; 12 Parental Closure Effects on Learning: Coleman's Theory of Social Capital on Learning Revisited; 13 Childcare Networks and Embedded Experiences; 14 The Immediate Returns on Time Investment in Daily Contacts: Exploring the Network-Overlapping Effects from Contact Diaries; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [346-347] and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-22075-8

1-281-93117-9

9786611931179

0-203-89009-4

9780203890097

OCLC:

318953254