Readership: Scholars and students of sociology, political science, business studies, and economics.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Nan Lin: Theory, Measurement, and the Research Enterprise on Social Capital
- Part I: The Position Generator Methodology: its Reliability, Validity and Variation
- 2: Martin Van der Gaag, Tom A. B. Snijders, Henk Flap: Position generator measures and their relationship to other Social Capital measures
- 3: Yang-chih Fu: Position Generator and Actual Networks in Everyday Life: An Evaluation with Contact Diary
- 4: Henk Flap and Beate Völker: Social, cultural, and economic capital and job attainment: The position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources
- 5: Yanjie Bian: The Formation of Social Capital among Chinese Urbanites: Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence
- Part II: Mobilization of Social Capital
- 6: Nan Lin and Dan Ao: The Invisible Hand of Social Capital: An Exploratory Study
- 7: Hester Moerbeek and Henk Flap: Social Resources and their effect on occupational attainment through the life course
- 8: Sandra Susan Smith: 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: René Bekkers, Beate Völker, Martin van der Gaag, and Henk Flap: 9. Social Networks of Participants in Voluntary Associations
- 10: Kakuko Miyata, Ken'ichi Ikeda, and Tetsuro Kobayashi: The Internet, Social Capital, Civic Engagement, and Gender in Japan
- 11: Ray-May Hsung and Yi-Jr Lin: Social Capital of Personnel Managers: the Causes and Return of Position-Generated Networks and the Participation in Voluntary Associations
- 12: Sandra Enns, Todd Malinick, and Ralph Matthews: 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
- 13: D. B. Tindall and Jeffrey J. Cormier: Gender, Network Capital, Social Capital and Political Capital: The Consequences of Personal Network Diversity for Environmentalists in British Columbia.
- 14: Marc Porter Magee: Civic Participation and Social Capital: A Social Network Analysis in Two American Counties
- Part IV: Social Institutions and Inequality in Social Capital
- 15: Gina Lai: Marriage, Gender, and Social Capital
- 16: Jennifer L. Moren-Cross and Nan Lin: Access to Social Capital and Status Attainment in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences
- 17: Catherine A. Johnson: Access to social capital and the structure of inequality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- 18: Róbert Angelusz and Róbert Tardos: Assessing Social Capital and Attainment Dynamics - position-generator (pg)-applications in Hungary, 1987-2003
- References
- Index
