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:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume brings together some of the leading scholars around the world working on social capital to study how individuals and groups access and use their social relations and social connections to do better in society in order to achieve their goals. - ;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 diver

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 Volker

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 / Robert Angelusz, Robert Tardos.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

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

ISBN:

0-19-956598-8

1-281-92532-2

9786611925321

1-4356-5742-X

0-19-152854-4

OCLC:

236164965