Handbook on inequality and social capital / edited by Steve McDonald (Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, US), Rochelle Côté (Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Jing Shen (Research Affiliate, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto, Canada).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonald, Steve, editor.

Côté, Rochelle, editor.

Shen, Jing, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks on inequality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social capital (Sociology).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

First.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"Building upon the extensive and expansive tradition of research on social capital and inequality, this Handbook summarizes current social capital research and showcases cutting-edge applications. With a global range of diverse expert contributors, this Handbook explores quantitative and qualitative approaches to a broad array of substantive topics, including health, social media, disasters, crime, and employment. Chapters highlight the major theoretical and methodological advancements in the field, examining applications to affective and community-based outcomes and applications to instrumental and career-based outcomes. Ultimately, the Handbook provides a comprehensive review of the diversity of research on the resource of social capital and its relationship with the creation and maintenance of different forms of inequality. Interdisciplinary in scope, this Handbook is a vital resource for students and scholars of sociology and social policy, economics, education, communications, management, demography, social networks, and public administration. Its innovative theorizing and novel empirical contributions will also be of use to policymakers working to reduce inequality across communities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents 1. Introduction: Connecting social capital with studies of social inequality / Rochelle Côté, Steve McDonald, and Jing Shen

Part I. Theoretical and methodological developments

2. Formalist and relationalist approaches to social capital / Emily Erikson and Jeffrey Sachs

3. Revisiting social capital and social network research: Inequality in social relations and structure / Steve McDonald, Jing Shen, and Andrew P. Davis

4. The intersectionality of social capital / Bonnie H. Erickson

5. Approaches to the measurement of individual social capital in general social surveys and structure / Christof Wolf, Marlène Sapin, and Dominique Joye

6. Qualitative cross-national comparisons of networking practices and experiences: Exploring similarities and differences in white-collar networking in Israel, Denmark and the United States / Ofer Sharone

7. Geospatial inequality of social capital: Comparing the effects of opportunity structures across regions and over time / Yang-chih Fu and Hui-Ju Kuo

Part II. Gemeinschaft - social capital as community

8. Social capital changes through life course events / Beate Völker

9. Social capital, health, health inequalities and well-being: A critical review and future directions / Padmore Adusei Amoah

10. Culture and social capital / Omar Lizardo

11. The role of social capital and social media in social inequality / Anabel Quan-Haase, William Hollingshead, and Molly-Gloria Patel

12. Institutional foundations of social capital / Maximilian Filsinger and Markus Freitag

13. Social capital and voluntary associations / Joonmo Son

14. Organization-based social capital and inequity in disaster recovery planning / Malini Roy and Michelle Annette Meyer

15. Social capital and social movements: Creating and accessing resources through social structures / David Tindall, Mark Shakespear, and Bob Edwards

16. Social support: A diverse, multilevel, unequal resource / Christine A. Mair

17. That's what friends are for: Can social capital help us better understand the diversity of friendship ties and their complex roles in personal networks? / Shira Offer

18. The ties that bond? Social capital in families / Mikaela J. Dufur, Tom R. Leppard, and Brianna K. Moodie

Part III. Gesellschaft - social capital as instrumental resource

19. The role of social capital in immigrants' and refugees' labour market integration: Evidence from Germany / Yuliya Kosyakova and Irena Kogan

20. Social capital and academic success / Nathan D. Martin and Stacey M. Alvarez Flores

21. Mentoring: Ensuring all youth have the networks of support needed for healthy development / Grace Gowdy and Renée Spencer

22. Social capital and network processes in the making of social class inequality: Debates, concepts and measurement / Vicente Espinoza and Gabriel Otero

23. Social mobility and social capital / Mark Western and Xianbi Huang

24. Inter- and intra-ethnic ties: Patterns, processes and payoffs / Vincent Chua, Shannon Ang, and Amritorupa Sen

25. Social capital, job search, and labor market outcomes / Gerhard Krug

26. Informal networks, social capital, and ethical challenges in international business / Yuliani Suseno and Sven Horak

27. Social capital and co-offending / Chris M. Smith

28. Macro-institutional change and social capital: The dynamics of guanxi influence in China, 1978-2021 / Yanjie Bian, Lei Zhang, and Xuewang Wang.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781802202373 (e-book)

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