Social capital in Europe
Subtitle: similarity of countries and diversity of people? : multi-level analyses of the European social survey 2002
By: edited by Heiner Meulemann.
Contributors: Meulemann, Heiner.
Series: International comparative social studies -- v. 16
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004163621
Subjects: Social capital (Sociology) -- Europe; Europe -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Heiner Meulemann.; title: Part I. Causes of social capital. 2. Does the state affect the informal connections between its citizens? New institutionalist explanations of social participation in everyday life / Tom Van der Meer, Peer Scheepers, and Manfred te Grotenhuis. 3. Is altruism more effective where it is required more? Collectivity-orientation and involvement in interest, issue, and religious associations / Heiner Meulemann. 4. What makes people trust in their fellow citizens? / Katja Neller. 5. What determines citizens' normative conception of their civic duties / Bas Denters and Henk van der Kolk. 6. Why television does erode social capital and why newspaper reading does not / Rudiger Schmitt-Beck.; title: Part II. Consequences of social capital. 7. Social capital and political involvement / Jan W. van Deth. 8. Social capital and political trust / Oscar W. Gabriel and Melanie Walter-Rogg. 9. Explaining level and equality of political participation. The role of social capital, socioeconomic modernity, and political institutions / Edeltraud Roller and Tatjana Rudi. 10. Social capital and empowerment at the work place / Heiner Meulemann.; title: Conclusion. 11. The European social survey-retrospect and prospect / Max Kaase.