Social capital
Subtitle: an international research program
By: edited by Nan Lin and Bonnie H. Erickson.
Contributors: Lin, Nan, 1938-; Erickson, Bonnie H.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780199234387
Subjects: Social capital (Sociology); Community development.; Community organization.; Social participation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-445) and index.
Table of contents: value: Theory, measurement, and the research enterprise on social capital / Nan Lin, Bonnie H. Erickson; value: Position generator measures and their relationship to other social capital measures / Martin van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Flap; value: Position generator and actual networks in everyday life : an evaluation with contact diary / Yang-chih Fu; value: Social, cultural, and economic capital, and job attainment : the position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources / Henk Flap, Beate Völker; value: The formation of social capital among Chinese urbanites : theoretical explanation and empirical evidence / Yanjie Bian; value: The invisible hand of social capital : an exploratory study / Nan Lin, Dan Ao; value: Social resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course / Hester Moerbeek, Henk Flap; value: A question of access or mobilization? Understanding inefficacious job referral networks among the Black poor / Sandra Susan Smith; value: Social networks of participants in voluntary associations / Rene Bekkers, Beate Volker, Martin van der Gaag, Henk Flap; value: The Internet, social capital, civic engagement, and gender in Japan / Kakuko Miyata, Ken'ichi Ikeda, Tetsuro Kobayashi; value: 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; value: 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; value: 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; value: Civic participation and social capital : a social network analysis in two American counties / Marc Porter Magee; value: Why some occupations are better known than others / Bonnie H. Erickson; value: Marriage, gender, and social capital / Gina Lai; value: Access to social capital and status attainment in the United States : racial/ethnic, and gender differences / Jennifer L. Moren Cross, Nan Lin; value: Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia / Catherine A. Johnson; value: Assessing social capital and attainment dynamics : position generator applications in Hungary, 1987-2003 / Róbert Angelusz, Róbert Tardos.