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