Social Capital
An International Research Program
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 6 March 2008
- ISBN 9780199234387
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 242x164x32 mm
- Weight 894 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Includes text boxes and diagrams 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong 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.
Table of Contents:
Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital
Part I: The Position Generator Methodology: its Reliability, Validity and Variation
Position generator measures and their relationship to other Social Capital measures
Position Generator and Actual Networks in Everyday Life: An Evaluation with Contact Diary
Social, cultural, and economic capital and job attainment: The position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources
The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence
Part II: Mobilization of Social Capital
The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study
Social Resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course
A Question of Access or Mobilization? Understanding Inefficacious Job Referral Networks among the Black Poor
Part III: Social Capital, Civil Engagement, Social Participation, and Trust
9. Social Networks of Participants in Voluntary Associations
The Internet, Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Gender in Japan
Social Capital of Personnel Managers: the Causes and Return of Position-Generated Networks and the Participation in Voluntary Associations
It's Not Only Who You Know, It's Also Where They Are: Using the Position 12. Generator to Investigate the Structure of Access to Embedded Resources
Gender, Network Capital, Social Capital and Political Capital: The Consequences of Personal Network Diversity for Environmentalists in British Columbia.
Civic Participation and Social Capital: A Social Network Analysis in Two American Counties
Part IV: Social Institutions and Inequality in Social Capital
Marriage, Gender, and Social Capital
Access to Social Capital and Status Attainment in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences
Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Assessing Social Capital and Attainment Dynamics - position-generator (pg)-applications in Hungary, 1987-2003
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